I am running Catalina - 10.15.6. & all the needed development tools including Xcode. I am getting this error with a simple Mac assembly 'hello world' program hello.asm
I will appreciate any help
$ nasm -fmacho64 hello.asm && ld hello.o && ./a.out
Undefined symbols for architecture x8664:
"main", referenced from:
implicit entry/start for main executable
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
;
; Writes "Hello, World" to the console using only system calls. Runs on 64-bit macOS only.
; To assemble and run:
;
; nasm -fmacho64 hello.asm && ld hello.o && ./a.out
; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------			global		start
section .text
start: mov rax, 0x02000004 ; system call for write
mov rdi, 1 ; file handle 1 is stdout
mov rsi, message ; address of string to output
mov rdx, 13 ; number of bytes
syscall ; invoke operating system to do the write
mov rax, 0x02000001 ; system call for exit
xor rdi, rdi ; exit code 0
syscall ; invoke operating system to exit
section .data
message: db "Hello, World", 10 ; note the newline at the end