The time out is simply your computer is not fast enough to finish the
compile before MPLAB gets tired of waiting. You can change the time out
value or just tell it to wait longer. No problems either way. Your synch
problem is probably due to needing to set 2 variables in your autoexec.bat
to handle warnings and errors and use of the -fakelocal switch on the
command line of the compiler so it can keep proper track of things to link
to MPLABS. If you look at the HiTec web site at the FAQ area they cover how
to do this for the full compiler si I assume this is also needed for the
free version.

Larry


At 10:16 PM 5/2/00 -0500, you wrote:
>hi!
>
>i am using HI-TECH Software's PICCLITE and MPLAB (4.12). it was
>very easy to get the two hooked up w/ each other.
>
>each time i build my project, once or twice a dialog box appears
>stating that something has timed out (?) and asking if i wish to
>proceed. so i have to watch and click to say "YES of course".
>
>the build is otherwise unremarkable. any idea what's going on here?
>
>i tried to work around the problem by issuing the two commands that
>the build window shows directly to DOS, viz:
>
>H:\PL\BIN\PICL.EXE -GMicrochip -O -Zg9 -D24 -E -ASMLIST -16F84 -C
>H:\TEST\SERIAL.C
>H:\PL\BIN\PICL.EXE -INTEL -16F84 -oSERIAL.HEX H:\TEST\SERIAL.OBJ
>
>which works fine (no need to tell it to go ahead!) and seems to
>actually be quite a bit faster (?) and it looks like it makes all the
>same objects, which would make it a really good work-around except
>that the *.C file doesn't seem to be correctly synchronized with the
>Program Memory window during simulation.
>
>again i ask if you have any idea what is going on here.
>
>other than that, i continue to be very happy with the FREE compiler
>and the FREE MPLAB, a great piece of software in its own right.
>
>--rob
>
>
Larry G. Nelson Sr.
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