Hello,

I wanted to create a HX DOS extended binary with WinASM, but run into a problem. Creating such binaries is usually very simple, because the format is like Win32 console PE applications, just another MZ stub is needed as input for the linker. However, after the link step there must run another tool, which patches the PE header (to prevent the binary from being run as a Win32 process if it is launched in a DOS box).

Can this be done with WinASM, without having to create plugins?

japheth,

There is an addin (by QvasiModo) for post-processing the output binary with an executable packer/protector:
http://www.winasm.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=74
Maybe you could use this as a solution (the path to the compressor/protector is configurable), or as a template to quickly tailor up an addin, specifically for the header-patching utility.

Hi Japheth,

samael's suggestion is a very good easy way out, I guess. Is it a satisfactory solution or do we need a better one?

Regards,

Antonis

I guess it somehow does the job - although I was unable to get it to do it and gave up -
but I was just playing around and there is no need at all to make WinASM able to generate Dos32 HX binaries

However, concerning Win32 binaries, there might indeed be a need to extend WinASM to make it a bit more flexible. Besides ML, LINK and RC there is at least the MIDL tool - usually needed for COM binaries - which one might consider to integrate.

Thanks for the suggestion japheth.

In case you haven't noticed, you can add a batch file to your project and execute it from within WinAsm Studio for full flexibility.

cheers,

> In case you haven't noticed, you can add a batch file to your project and execute it
> from within WinAsm Studio for full flexibility.

Thanks! No, I didn't notice, however, I finally succeeded running my PATCHPE tool with the "exepacker" plugin. (the problem was it didn't expect the filename argument enclosed in double quotes).

Contratulations!

I guess like samael suggested you could make a few changes to that add-in after all, and presto... one PE patcher to go! ;)

Hmm...

I did not realize that there is a batch feature as well. Maybe the help file should note this?

Time to tinker... :rolleyes:

EDIT

Could you give us some more information on what this tool does? Thank you.