On 2/11/06, John Nall <jwnall@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just used the student version of the Microchip C30 C compiler for the
> first time.
>
> It compiles  the program OK, but there is a warning message issued:
> "The MPLAB C30 license has expired.
> pic30-coff-cc1.exe: warning: Options have been disabled due to expired
> license"
>
> Is this normal?  Does the student version always give that warning?  Or
> is something else going on?  Before installing the student version, I
> had installed the regular C30 compiler to try it out for 60 days (before
> the student version became available), but thought that installing the
> student version would supersede that one.  I know  that the student
> version does not do the optimizing that the commercial version does, but
> it doesn't seem like they should issue such a warning.
>
> John

This is normal. You can try out to uninstall the student version and then
install it to a different directory and see if things get better. The expired
C30 still does some optimizing but not all.

It will be interesting to see the difference between expired student version
and self-built version from GPLed source package. Microchip has some
reservations about the license though. Please have a look at the following
thread. The self-built version will not have the -mpa optimizing (nor does
the expired student version) but it will support normal optimizing built in
with GCC.

http://forum.microchip.com/tm.aspx?m=139360

Regards,
Xiaofan

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