Using C header file in an assembly file

Is it possible that the invalid line start error message may be due to what's in the included file, rather than the fact that you're including a file via #include...?

The error is because the ARM RealView Assembler does not understand the #define directive. Look carefully at the documentation quoted above.

You must run this file though the C preprocessor first before trying to assemble the result through the ARM RealView Assembler.

Note that this is two separate steps; The ARM RealView assembler does not have a built-in C preprocessor.

The examples shown in the links show the assembly file being run through the ARM RealView Compiler using the -E switch. This just runs the C preprocessor on the assembler file. The output of the preprocessor is then piped to a resultant file. This resultant file should then be assembled by the ARM RealView Assembler to generate the final object file.

There does not appear to be an convenient way of doing this easily within the UV3 IDE.

Note that C header file that you include can only contain #defines. Any other C constructs will be included into the resultant file and will cause the assembly stage to fail as it won't understand them.

Hope that helps!

Is it possible that the invalid line start error message may be due to what's in the included file, rather than the fact that you're including a file via #include...?

The error is because the ARM RealView Assembler does not understand the #define directive. Look carefully at the documentation quoted above.

You must run this file though the C preprocessor first before trying to assemble the result through the ARM RealView Assembler.

Note that this is two separate steps; The ARM RealView assembler does not have a built-in C preprocessor.

The examples shown in the links show the assembly file being run through the ARM RealView Compiler using the -E switch. This just runs the C preprocessor on the assembler file. The output of the preprocessor is then piped to a resultant file. This resultant file should then be assembled by the ARM RealView Assembler to generate the final object file.

There does not appear to be an convenient way of doing this easily within the UV3 IDE.

Note that C header file that you include can only contain #defines. Any other C constructs will be included into the resultant file and will cause the assembly stage to fail as it won't understand them.

Hope that helps!

As Patrick Pointed out their seems to be no easy way to precompile assembly files and then assemble the output thorugh uV IDE.
The only way I had found till now is running a batch file through uV IDE which will precompile and assemble the files.This is done by putiing on the option of run script before make in the options for target.

uVision works through the files in the Project file list in order.

So you could try something like this:

Put the headers at the top of the list, and define a "Custom Translation" that just pre-processes them to, say, .i files.

Then you also add the .i files, and set them as assembler source files.

Then the rest of your project files, as usual...

Not amazingly convenient, but should work...