Talking of good free software, I just installed the Beta MPLAB v6.0 IDE
plus a demo copy of the C18 compiler to support some development with a
PIC18F452 project.  The new IDE is brilliant, and miles better than the
v5.xx IDE's. I'm using v6.0 under Windows XP, with a USB link to the
MPLAB ICD2 debugger, and then the regular ICSP/ICD connection to my
target hardware. It all works perfectly! (Well, nearly perfectly. The
new IDE has at least one bug regarding recognition of the ICD2, for
which I have found a work around of deselecting and reselecting the ICD2
in the 'Select Programmer' option.)

BTW, does anyone know why the downloadable C18 compiler is a demo? Does
it konk-out after month or something similar?

Regards, Peter Moreton

-----Original Message-----
From: pic microcontroller discussion list
[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Dattalo
Sent: 03 July 2002 22:09
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Good PIC software


On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Brandon Stewart wrote:

> If the Best tools in life are free... then why can't I find a good
> free C compiler for the 877! (comparable to High-Tech)

SDCC is getting there:

http://www.linuxhacker.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?1:mss:1346:200207:lebcinifb
mnoigdbjanh


but there's still a long ways to go...

Scott

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