In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, oliverb wrote:

Sanguish,
The biggest issue is addressing the com ports. (Bean, Windows console mode is the one mode NOT supported on any other OS in emulation mode). If your running the latest version of the OS (which is built on a FreeBSD kenrel) you can download the WINE system and run the SX Interface, BUT you will still have issues with the com port. That could be an issue with the FTDI interface as well as their calls on non-Windows platforms are not the same as their calls on Windows. There isn't much of a market for embedded tools on the MAC and it's uncertain how much of a market exisits for the Linux and Unix markets combined. CCS doesn't support the MAC at all and they are doing the C compiler so I can say with a high degree they probably won't be supporting the MAC either. As you probably already know, Microchip doesn't support the Mac with MPLAB either. Communications programming at the application layer is completely different for each of these platforms, that's why there isn't greater cross-platform support. Your goin to have a tough time getting vendors excited about doing a Mac port unless you put up a large sum of money. They will never recover their development costs unless someone pays in full for the port.

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