Include syntax on MASM32

Question

When including files into MASM32, it cannot find it's own files. After including masm32rt.inc, the assembler cannot find \masm32\include\windows.inc

Apparently most MASM system include files begin with \ instead of specyfing a relative or absolute path.

I tried specifying the directory in %PATH%, setting the /I compile switch, and setting the INCLUDE and MASM32 environment variables without success.

It seems that it is giving windows a path it doesn't understand. A solution would be to do a mass find and replace in files, and add C: before the directives. However I would like to prevent editing the files they provide, and find out the proper way to do it.

How do I set it up so that it can find it's own files?

Answer 1

You could deal with this in two ways that I know of, you need to check your MASM32 documentation, there's an -I command switch to specify the include directory, or use an environment variable (MASM32 or INCLUDE IIRC)..You can set the environment variable by right-clicking on 'My Computer', left-click on 'Properties', a dialog box with different tab pages appears, left-click on 'Advanced', then left-click on 'Environment Variables', and stick in the environment variables for 'INCLUDE' and 'MASM32'...

Hope this helps, Best regards, Tom.