Add nasm and yasm assemblers?

[sgsunder]

I frequently run into projects that require nasm and/or yasm assemblers to build, so this could be a useful addition, plus it only weighs about 20MB on the Debian image.

[tianon]

Do you have a couple open source example projects you could share (especially for posterity's sake)?

[sgsunder]

The largest open-source project i've ran into that requires it would be ffmpeg and its defendant library, libx264, both of which require them to compile.

• https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git
• https://git.videolan.org/?p=x264.git

[tianon]

Interesting -- I hadn't really considered this being a base for building software generically; here's the description of what buildpack-deps contains that we use on https://hub.docker.com/_/buildpack-deps/:

It includes a large number of "development header" packages needed by various things like Ruby Gems, PyPI modules, etc. For example, buildpack-deps would let you do a bundle install in an arbitrary application directory without knowing beforehand that ssl.h is required to build a dependent module.

(See also the "What's included?" section further below, which goes into more detail.)

Are there any popular language modules (Gems, etc) which require nasm or yasm for building?

[tianon]

Closing for now, but to be clear, if we can find a ~decent number of example language modules using nasm or yasm I'm open to rediscussing:

Are there any popular language modules (Gems, etc) which require nasm or yasm for building?