Laser is a cross-platform, command-line-based assembler for the LC3 assembly language implemented in pure C. Version 2 extends the functionality of LC3Tools and LC3Edit through new pseudoops, along with a project assembly mode.

Under the releases tab, there are pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Mac, and Linux. In addition, it is highly recommended that you use this program with an extensible editor like VSCode or Notepad++, and to add Laser as a shortcut in your editor. If all this installation stuff is not up your alley or you'd like to learn more about how Laser was created, take a look at BUILDING.md for instructions on how to build Laser from source.

Once you've downloaded the precompiled binary (building from source is actually recommended on Linux due to all the different distrubutions and their differences, but Laser has practically 0 dependencies so it should be fine), copy the file to either /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin and make it executable. Alternatively, put it wherever and add it to your PATH environment variable.

Download the laser-x-x-x.exe from the releases tab and place it somewhere permanent (I.E. not your Downloads folder), and add it to your Windows PATH.

To add the program to your PATH, open the file explorer, right click on This PC, and select 'properties'. Then, click on 'advanced system settings' and click on the 'environment variables' button. In the window that pops up, highlight the 'Path' variable and select 'edit'. From there, click 'new' and input the file path of where you placed the downloaded laser executable. Afterwards, click 'ok' and then 'apply'. You should then be able to invoke laser from the command line.

See USAGE.md

see BUILDING.md

Laser- a command line utility to assemble LC3 assembly code

Copyright Notice:

Copyright 2018, 2019 Zhiyuan Fan

License Notice:

Laser is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

Laser is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with Laser.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.