>
> Hulatt, Jon wrote :
>
> > I'd be happy to help with this. I'm a windows programmer by
> trade, and
> > have recently done quite a bit of linux stuff. And I'm
> currently very
> > interested in getting pic-related tools running on linux.
>
> Besides of the original Python based Xwisp, right ? :-)

Yes. I'm using that right now. I've been (failing) to get MPLAB running
under wine though. Obviously there's gpasm replacement for the assembler,
and there are many IDE's in linux that can be configured. I've been working
on getting mcc18 working with wine- with some good success in fact. I may
start a page on piclist.com soon to detail the developments.

>
> > On a (slightly) separate note: has anyone every seen any
> documentation
> > on the interfaces needed to create a COM object which MPLAB
> can use as
> > a programmer device? (all of the MPLAB supported programmers are
> > implemented as COM objects. it would be nice to implement a COM
> > wrapper around Xwisp so that programming can be done from the IDE).
>
> Have you asked Microchip ?

no. I've not really looked into doing this in a huge amount of detail yet.

> And isn't there tools (from Miicrosoft) that can
> "disassembler" an COM interface ? I think there was tools
> that could do that with DLL's and VBX files at least.
>

yes, you can, in particular using OLE View. But it's not obvious enough what
is going on. There are a lot of methods and data types which are not
documented in the "help" comments built in, and although you could probably
work them out with some tracing, it's a lot of work that may yield very
limited success.

> It *would* be a very nice addition !

Indeed, although I'm *less* interested now since I've dumped windows from my
home pc and am solely running gentoo linux.

>
> Jan-Erik.
>
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