Has anyone out there managed to get any of the various
compilers/assemblers working on 'hosted website' servers such as
Dreamhost? Since you can't mess with system directories, everything has to
work out of the user's own home directory.

I tried this a little while ago with the GNU C compiler and latest
Microchip libraries, but GCC complains (to the point of not compiling) if
you try to use '~/' as part of the install path, and giving a literal path
to your home directory also doesn't work, I think due to the
virtualization of where your home directory actually is. (At least on
Dreamhost)

My goal is to create an online PIC compiler so that when I release code,
everyone else can use the same tools I used to modify and recompile.
(There are critical/timed sections of code which need to be reliably
compiled to the same machine code every time, or things go wrong) Plus it
reduces the barrier to entry for newbies, as setting up compiler
environments can be tricky.

Anyone?

-- 
Jeremy Lee BCompSci (Hons)
 The Unorthodox Engineers
  www.unorthodox.com.au

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