> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu 
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Chetan Bhargava
> Slightly off topic:
> 
> I tried to get MPLAB/wine working on Ubuntu-AMD64/EM64T. Seems 
> like wine doesn't have a 64bit package yet and to install wine 
> by compiling source also involves chrooting....
> 
> I would recomend to stay away from AMD64 / EM64T OS for a 
> while if you need wine support.
>

It is reported that MPLAB does not run well on 64-bit Windows XP 
professional due to driver issues and other issues.

It is also reported that the PIC USB custom driver does not run
in the new Windows Vista (beta only but will come very soon).

I do not run any thing which needs 64-bit. Therefore I am running
32-bit Linux (FC4 and Ubuntu 5.10) even though I have a AMD64
3000+ CPU powered desktop with 1GB of DDR-SDRAM.

Back to the topic, I will try to get the help from the 
the original author of the Debian packages (t-tecjohn) to
build the updated 2.0 MPLAB C30 under Ubuntu.

It is always better to avoid wine if other alternatives
are available. I've tried also building C30 packages
under Cygwin using the FC4 RPMs. The RPM building process
failed. But the resulting binaries do work! I guess I
would like to document a plain tarball approach without
all these RPM and DEB thingy since I do not know how to
handle them. 

The good news is that Scott would like to embark on 
gpsim support of dsPIC! Please refer to here:
http://forum.microchip.com/tm.aspx?m=94243

So the next thing will be a native optimizer for
MPLAB C30 and an alternative open source libc 
(there is already a project started on the libc
front).


Regards,
Xiaofan

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