Compiling AS MacroAssembler on Linux

Some notes on getting the AS MacroAssembler running on Debian (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2, although that shouldn't make a difference).

Precompiled binaries aren't available for Linux, so it's a case of downloading and compiling the C source code. The only tricky bit is getting the compile options set correctly.

• Download and extract the source code:

  wget http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/ftp/as/source/c_version/asl-latest.41r8.tar.gz
  gunzip asl-latest.tar.gz
  tar xvf asl-latest.tar
  cd asl-latest
  

• Copy the default Makefile.def template

  cp Makefile.def.tmpl Makefile.def
  

• Issue the make command to compile the executable.
• Make sure that make test completes successfully. I didn't bother with make install command because that needs latex installed to build the documentation, and that would add another 500MB to my Debian installation… easier to just symlink the asl executable from the project where I need it.