I am trying to compile Quake 1 (QW) from source code and have run into the following problem when compiling client/d_copy.s : Error: Junk at EOL, first unrecognised character is '('.
The file in question is here (please excuse the syntax highlighting, pastebin only supports NASM). I am attempting to compile with GCC (as this is GNU Assembly code) and am trying to figure out what is causing the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The assembly file is meant to be run through the C preprocessor before being sent to the assembler. This should result in the C macro being properly expanded, assuming that the macro been defined in the one of the other files that are included by the #include lines.
To have GCC preprocess the assembly file you can either use the -x assembler-with-cpp option or rename the file so that it has a .S (capital S) or .sx extension.