The component that MPLAB 7.1 under Wine does not work:
1) Support of project management: can be substituted by MAKE
2) Support for ICD2 for debugging and programming
3) Support for other hardware tools: Pickit 1 not working,
Promate II most likely not working due to broken Serial
support in Wine. MPLAB ICE2000/4000: no chance of working?

The component that MPLAB7.1 and other Microchip tools works 
better than similar tools.
1) MPASM: majority of code is written in MPASM, not GPASM
2) MPASM 30: no counterpart in GPASM
3) MCC18: SDCC still has a long way to go. Hitech PICC18 under 
Linux may be better but cost quite a lot. MCC18 has a free edition.
4) MPLAB C30: no counterpart yet. Even Hitech dSPICC 30 seems 
very weak now (from the demo version). Microchip releases 60
day free version from time to time.
5) Faster support of new chips

Xiaofan

-----Original Message-----
From: Byron A Jeff [mailto:byron@cc.gatech.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:46 PM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [PIC] PIC development under Linux with Wine
...
But I ask the question again: what functionality does MPLAB have that
you cannot find in other tools. At a casual glance I would say ICD
debugging support and possibly dsPIC support in gpasm.

But the toolset is there. 

BAJ
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