NASM Unresolved External Symbols

[nullP]

Hello there,

I am trying to build a NASM Assembler ( Source file - http://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/2.10.09/nasm-2.10.09.zip ) and I get the following list of errors :

Building NASM.exe.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_raa_read'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_raa_write'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_nasm_error'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_nasm_free'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_nasm_set_verror'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_tolower_init'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_nasm_init_malloc_error'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_raa_init'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_saa_init'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_nasmpp'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_seg_init'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_null_debug_form'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_parser_global_info'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_lookup_label'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_eval_global_info'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_nasmlist'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_src_get'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_raa_free'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_saa_free'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_eval_cleanup'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_stdscan_cleanup'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_init_labels'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_cleanup_labels'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_nasm_skip_spaces'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_nasm_malloc'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_ofmt_find'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_nasm_stricmp'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_preproc_nop'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_dfmt_find'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_ofmt_list'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_dfmt_list'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_nasm_compile_options'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_nasm_date'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_nasm_version'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_lpostfix'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_lprefix'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_nasm_realloc'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_nasm_strdup'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_define_label'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_redefine_label'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_globalbits'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_saa_rewind'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_saa_rstruct'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_stdscan_reset'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_stdscan_set'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_stdscan'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_evaluate'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_is_extern'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_declare_as_global'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_seg_alloc'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_nasm_zap_spaces_fwd'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_readnum'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_define_common'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_is_reloc'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_reloc_seg'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_reloc_value'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_float_option'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_parse_line'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_saa_wstruct'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_insn_size'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_assemble'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_cleanup_insn'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_nasm_zap_spaces_rev'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_nasm_skip_word'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_find_directive'.
POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol '_of_bin'.
POLINK: fatal error: 66 unresolved external(s).

Any ideas why this might be happening??
Thanks,
null

[Stefan Pendl]

Seems there are some LIB files missing or at least the DEF files.

Have you created a complete workspace that builds all the LIBs and DLLs?

[nullP]

I'm really new to assembly. Please suggest me some sources to start off from..
Thanks in advance!!

[Bitbeisser]

I'm really new to assembly. Please suggest me some sources to start off from..
Thanks in advance!!

Well, if you're really new to assembler language, how about starting of with downloading the binary of the Windows installer instead? 

http://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/2.10.09/win32/

Ralf