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Also included is NDISASM, a prototype x86 binary-file disassembler
which uses the same instruction table as NASM.
-To install NASM, you will need GCC. Type `make', and then when it
-has finished copy the file `nasm' (and maybe `ndisasm') to a
-directory on your search path (I use /usr/local/bin on my linux
-machine at home, and ~/bin on other machines where I don't have root
+To install NASM on Linux, type `make', and then when it has finished
+copy the file `nasm' (and maybe `ndisasm') to a directory on your
+search path (maybe /usr/local/bin, or ~/bin if you don't have root
access). You may also want to copy the man page `nasm.1' (and maybe
`ndisasm.1') to somewhere sensible.
+To rebuild the DOS sources, three makefiles are provided:
+Makefile.dos, the one the standard release is built from, designed
+for a hybrid system using Microsoft C and Borland Make (don't ask
+why :-), Makefile.bor (for Borland C) and Makefile.bc2 (also for
+Borland C, contributed by Fox Cutter <lmb@comtch.iea.com>, may work
+better than Makefile.bor in some cases).
+
If you want to build a restricted version of NASM containing only
some of the object file formats, you can achieve this by adding
#defines to `outform.h' (see the file itself for documentation), or