Make A Skeleton Program, I'm just trying to get any program to run, to see if I set things up correctly.

Hello,

I just downloaded WinASM to practice as I need to learn x86 for school. I believe I have installed everything correctly. My steps were:

1.) Download and Install Hutch's MASM32.
2.) Download and Install WinASM studio (Full Package).
3.) Set my Tools->Options->File & Paths to the correct settings. (Let's hope)

Then, I've been looking around the forums and trying to get something to run, but I get errors every time and I'm not really sure what sequence to hit the buttons in in order to get things to compile. The main thing I've tried is:

1.) New Project
2.) Standard EXE (I really just need to do basic things like Hello World. Would this
be better for "Console Application"?)
3.) Tried to make some sort of skeleton from the examples (or just tried the
examples themselves) with:

.386
.MODEL flat, stdcall
OPTION CASEMAP:NONE
.data
.code
Start:
End Start

which I'm guessing is sort of close to the equivalent of:

#include<stdio.h>

int main()
{
return 0;
}

Then tried hitting buttons in this order to make things work:

1.) Assemble
2.) Link
3.) Go All
4.) Execute

Any pointers on where to go to get myself started? Thank you for the help. I'm sure this is a very common question so I'm quite sorry to waste the space, I just couldn't find another post to help me. Also, I'll be happy to take some screenshots or give more information if necessary. Thanks again!

This is what I use as my "blank slate."

The include file contains the first 3 lines of your code.

There are quite a few assembler forums still around.

I recommend studying code, asking questions, and downloading the WIN32.HLP which contains many of the Win32 APIs.

Good luck.

Andy