/cc @cherrymui per owners.

As you noted, the -I flag is passed by the go command if you use go build (or go run, go test, etc.). The assembler is not expected to be invoked by hand in general, although it is possible. If you do that, it is up to you to pass the flag.

Closing as working as intended.

That's unfortunate to hear. I have been using the asm tool a lot lately to inspect what the assembler does and to ensure that it does what I intend to do (especially wrt. macro expansions). Wouldn't it be possible to at least have a short hand convenience option for this behaviour? Right now, the usability is just very poor.

@fuzxxl Can this be addressed more effectively at a higher level (i.e., a convenience wrapper around cmd/asm that takes into account the typical workflow you're describing)?

@dmitris Possibly. But apart from providing the right search path for include directories, I have no idea what else this wrapper would do. The only idea I have is adding a flag -S to go build that would invoke compile or asm on all source files listed in addition to/instead of compilation. Not sure what the best solution is here.