At 10:59 AM 7/22/01, you wrote:
>Hello Jerry.  Thanks for the tip.  However, it's still the same problem.
>I've commented out the device line, and the first line in the SRC file looks
>exactly like:
>
>         include 16f877
>
>now I've tried every possible combination of this with no luck.  i've tried
>uppercase, lowercase, mixed, tabbed in, spaced in, with relative path,
>absolute path... what to do now?

Try:
         include '16F877.INC'

(assuming it is in your project directory)

else something like:
         include 'c:\tde42\16F877.inc'

NOTE the SINGLE QUOTES are necessary.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: pic microcontroller discussion list
>[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Jerry Merrill
>Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 10:33 AM
>To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: PROBLEMS WITH TDE v42 BETA 2!!! Anyone see this?
>
>
>Ron:
>
>The 'unknown symbol PORTA' and 'illegal mnumonic/operand' messages are all
>indications that the assembler does not 'know' the default symbols for this
>device or even WHAT device (12bit/14bit?, memory size?..) to target.  This
>is due to a missing header file.
>
>   - Set your project tool for 'CVASM' (This will use CVASM 6.0).
>   - Ensure that you have a '   include xxxx.inc' line in your source file
>BEFORE ANY OTHER EXECUTABLE LINE. THis replaces the old 'DEVICE' directive.
>There is a README in your TDE 4.2 install directory that discusses the
>slight changes required  to use CVASM 6.0
>   - The INCLUDE directive can not be in the first column (or it will be
>considered to be a LABEL).
>   - The included file name can include an absolute or a relative path to
>the file.
>
>This should BUILD and RUN OK.....let us know.
>
>Thanks for helping us shake out the BETA.....please be sure to forward your
>observations to us so that we can incorporate them into TDE 4.2 before
>final release.
>
>Jerry
>
>
>At 11:52 PM 7/21/01, you wrote:
> >Hello All.  I am using TDE 4.2 beta 2 on a project that runs perfectly in
> >TDE 4.1.  After having the installation of beta 2 fail in win Me, but work
> >on Win2k, i used the install from the win 2k machine and copied the TDEv2b2
> >directory over to the win Me machine (the one hooked up to the clearview
> >emu).
> >
> >When I ran the project, it all loaded well enough but wen it tried to build
> >it, I got:
> >
> >ERROR FILENAME.SRC line number : use of unknown symbol PORTA
> >
> >and i also got illegal mnemonic/operand combination
> >Now I went so far as to rename the enitre fresh install of TDEv2b2 to TDE
> >and literally dumped the enitre directory onto the original Win ME
>machine's
> >TDE directory, so everything was replaced except my project files.
> >
> >No matter, the same errors apply.
> >
> >If I select CVASM16 or SPASM or CVASM_OLD it's the same thing.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >One previosu time I was trying a few random things, and got the build to
> >work and execute the program but only after saying:  Can't resolve
> >symbols.tde, please check project settings.
> >
> >What to do??? Man I want those v4.2b2 tools!
> >
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