On Mon, 21 May 2001, Paul McClean wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am relatively new to PIC programming, although I have considerable
> computer and electronics experience. I am familiar with assembly programming
> on the PIC16F84 and PIC16F87*, although I would now like to move to a C
> compiler, as my programs get larger and more complicated. I have extensive
> experience with C programming on Linux and DOS, and a little on a Motorola
> 68K test bench.
>
> When I had a quick look, there appears to be a huge number of different
> compilers out there. Which compiler would you recommend, considering I
> require support for at LEAST the two PICS mentioned and preferably for the
> entire range, and I have a limited budget (read student :) ).
>
> I'm currently using a homebrew (David Tait style) programmer, with DOS
> software, and developing using MPLAB. I would like to consider moving to
> Linux as my development platform, if someone could suggest a C compiler,
> assembler, simulator and programmer for Linux.


For PIC development tools that run under Linux, take a look at the GNUPIC web
page:

   http://www.gnupic.org/

Not mentioned on the GNUPIC web page is Hi-Tech's Linux C-compiler.

Scott

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