On 22/11/2010 01:22, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 3:18 AM, KPL wrote: > >> I'm trying to learn sdcc for pic, on linux. I have almost no >> experience using C at all, so probably missing something very simple. > I do not use sdcc. But they have a mailing list, fairly active. > You can try that. > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user > > On the other hand, I think sdcc for PIC is not that good > from what I read. sdcc for 8051 is pretty good though. > > SDCC for PIC is a compiler project, not yet a PIC tool, use Micro-chip's=20 free version of HiTech C, or Pascal or JAL. (JALV2 does 10F, 12F, 16F, 18F with much easy to read=20 libraries) A PIC is not a good starting point to learn C. There are a couple of other decent C for PIC 16F/18F that have demo=20 versions. I know of no "free" C for PIC that lets you sensibly do real=20 projects. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .