NASM: unable to open include file

Question

I've seen some other questions regarding this, but none of them seem to help. my nasm directory is:

NASM/
  include/
    macros/
      consoleIO.inc
      loops.inc
  test.asm

consoleIO.inc includes loops.inc, but when I include consoleIO.inc into test.asm and assemble it, I get the following error: include/macros/consoleIO.inc:1: fatal: unable to open include file `loops.inc' Not sure if this is relevant, but I'm running this on an Xubuntu VM and i assemble the program like so: nasm -f elf -o test.o test.asm

Answer 1

This is explained in the manual:

Include files are searched for in the current directory (the directory you're in when you run NASM, as opposed to the location of the NASM executable or the location of the source file), plus any directories specified on the NASM command line using the -i option.

The -i option is documented here.

So you'll want to change your invocation of NASM to something like:

nasm -f elf -i~/NASM/include/macros/ -o test.o test.asm