Wine is for sure a great product and it is free and better yet 
open source. The main objective to use wine for now is to use
the MPLAB C18 and C30 under Linux sometimes without rebooting
to Windows. The original motivation to try Wine was that I could
not build SDCC and gpsim at that time so I started with Wine.
Gputils are quite stable already and I used it before under Windows.

Linux C30 RPM or DEB binary packages can be downloaded from 
http://noel.feld.cvut.cz/dspic/ 
http://forum.microchip.com/tm.asp?m=94243 (uChip Forum post)
But I think the libraries are missing. I will check out this later
since my dsPIC experiment has not really started.

For the other things, gputils/gpsim/sdcc have both native Linux versions
as well as Windows and are recommended over Wine. Within the past
four months (I started my Linux PIC exploration only in May this year), 
tremendous progress has been made in this front. Just check out the 
GNUPIC list and you will know. Remember to check out the CVS version
from time to time.

Some more status for my wine experiments:

MPLAB IDE project management is not working under Wine (broken support 
of name pipe under Wine??). But there is the great Make as a good 
alternative. There are free tools (MCC18 wrapper) to integrate C18 
with Eclipse IDE (IMHO not really necessary) under Wine.

All hardware tools MPLAB supports (ICD2, PICKit 1, Promate II/III) 
are not working under Wine due to broken serial/usb support under Wine.

Actually there are quite some other PIC development software which 
will work under Wine. I will write a follow-up to the mini-howto
but it will take lower priority than my PICkit 2/Wisp628/PICDEM FS USB/
experiments. You are welcome to report your progress with Wine
here as well.

You can check out the PIClist.com archive of my previous posts.
Threads:
RE: [PIC] PIC development under Linux  with Wine
RE: [EE]  MCU and electronics development on Linux


Regards,
Xiaofan


-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis J. Murray [mailto:denbarb@verizon.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 10:44 PM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [PIC] Mini Howto: Microchip tools under Linux with Wine


Thanks to all that replied!!  I was REALLY under the impression that 
WINE was a commercial product and that's why I had not tried it!!

Gonna have to download it and start getting familiar with it!!

Thanks again!
Dennis
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