On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 12:21:38AM -0700, James Mullins wrote:
> 
> Hi I'm new to the world of PIC's so sorry if this realy dumb question.

No need to apologize. Welcome aboard.

> Currently I'am trying to familarise my self with PIC programming by working
> my way through a book I found at the libary.

Which book is that?

> I'm atempting to convert and
> assemble code originaly designed for a PIC16F84 to something i can use with
> a PIC16F88 using MPLAB.

A warning. A 16F84 program may not be your best starting point. As I point out
in my 16F88/16F84 comparison page:

http://www.finitesite.com/d3jsys/16F88.html

The 16F88 has a ton of hardware support, ADC, capture/compare, PWM, USART,
and the like. The 16F84 has virtually no periperal support. So other than the
blinking LED application, the 16F84 will have to use software to emulate those
features. Take a look at Nigel Goodwin's PIC tutorial series, which uses a
16F628 and a 16F876, for a more up to date look:

http://www.winpicprog.co.uk/pic_tutorial.htm

>  What i've done is taken the code from the book and
> placed it under main in the MPLAB 16F88 template file. Below is the code I'm
> trying to build within MPLAB and the following output.
> 
> http://www.nabble.com/user-files/235749/f88tempo.asm f88tempo.asm 

Close to the typical light an LED program.

> Clean: Deleting intermediary and output files.
> Clean: Deleted file "C:\pic\code\prog2\f88tempo.o".
> Clean: Deleted file "C:\pic\code\prog2\f88tempo.ERR".
> Clean: Deleted file "f88tempo.lst".
> Clean: Deleted file "C:\pic\code\prog2\prog2mplab.mcs".
> Clean: Done.
> Executing: "C:\Program Files\Microchip\MPASM Suite\MPAsmWin.exe" /q /p16F88
> "f88tempo.asm" /l"f88tempo.lst" /e"f88tempo.err" /o"f88tempo.o" /w2
> Executing: "C:\Program Files\Microchip\MPASM Suite\MPLink.exe"
> "C:\pic\code\prog2\16F88.lkr" "C:\pic\code\prog2\f88tempo.o"
> /o"prog2mplab.cof" /M"prog2mplab.map"
> MPLINK 4.04, Linker
> Copyright (c) 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
> Error - section 'RESET_VECTOR' can not fit the absolute section. Section
> 'RESET_VECTOR' start=0x00000000, length=0x00000002
> Errors    : 1
> 
> BUILD FAILED: Tue Aug 22 11:17:25 2006

It's something about how your linker sections are layed out. Could you post the
16F88.lkr file?

BAJ
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