Setting up Qt Creator for assembly

After fiddling with inline asssembly (not very successfully) ,I recently decided to try writing proper assembly and compiling with NASM in Linux. After writing a hello world using gedit and having a terminal open for compiling,linking and running I had a thought.,there has to be a better way to do this.

So I tried Qt Creator ,because I know it's easy to add custom build and run commands,and what do you know? I got it to work. Here's how,my screenshots and assembly code are in Linux but the set up should be the same regardless of the operating system,if you are not using Linux then just use the same commands you use to assemble in your operating system.

First off ,create a new console application:

I named mine ASM

Rename the main.cpp to main.asm and delete all the text inside.then insert some assembly:

Now open up the “Project” tab and edit the build settings,remove the current build and clean steps and remove the “-build-desktop” from the end of the build directory line.

Now add two custom build steps,these would be the two commands that you would usually use to compile assembly

“nasm -f elf main.asm” and “ld -s -o ASM main.o ” (“ld -m elf_i386 main.o -o ASM” if you are a x86_64 user)

Take note where I used “ASM” this is the name I gave the Qt project in the beginning.

Heres what it should look like,remember to check “Enable custom process step”

And thats it ,now when you hit the run button the assembly is built and run and you can see the output under “application output”.