Coding assembly on Mac

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Hi... I'm a university student and my current subject is about x86 intel Assembly. The teacher provides the Assembly compiler and debugger for us and they run nice on the editplus source code editor but it will only run on PC platform. Try to see the link above. I would like to write, compile and debug x86 assembly codes on my MBP. Is there any way to do that ? I hope we can also do this on MAC. I hate calling all the compilers and writing down all my codes on the Terminal also so, I'm gonna need an assembly compiler that comes with a source code editor. Any help would be appreciated
Andy

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The answer to your question is yes and no at the same time. You cannont natively Compile (since this is assembly code its assemble) x86 code with nasm on the OSX side of things. This is mainly because there is not an assembler for mac, but there is a way to do this. This is basically what I did last semester in my x86 class. I got a copy of Parallels and XP from the compsci dept at the university (just the windows i had to buy Parallels) and installed all my x86 stuff there. That way if you have something you are using in class its the same for your mac. As far as an assembler with an ide i think you are out of luck we always used notepad then compiled with a bat file. So basically you would just have to set your bat file to point at your .asm file and have one for a full compile and one for a debug so you can do both.
If you do not know bat files are easy to make just open notepad and when you save just move the box at the bottom to all files and name it *.bat.
I hope this helps
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