I have done everything you mentioned--except switching to MPLAB-X :)   The
difference is, I want it to be automatic.   Right now, what happens is that
I build it with SIM selected, run the thing, and when I halt it I am stuck
in some infinite loop or another.  I immediately realize that's a side
effect of the simulator, so I do a quick search of my code to see if it
looks at the value of SIMULATING.  And it does, so I go to the build
configuration and put that in, only to have it collide with the symbol I
put in a config file--see, there's more than one way to do it, and I of
course, chose the other way.  So, I take the label out of the build, then
go to the file and change the value from 0 to 1, and then I have to
recompile the whole thing all over again before I can use it.

Later, when I go back to the real hardware, I will forget the label is set
to 1, and the above story pretty much repeats.

By the way, most of you will be thinking, "It's just one thing, how
difficult can it be?"  Well, consider that I can build for my demo board
with the PIC32MX360 or the real hardware with the PIC32MX440, and so
there's another label...that would be four possible combinations to get
right, and one more thing to change would make it eight...soon you would go
crazy.    Happily, there is a way to identify the processor, so I currently
have just that one problem.  But I would really like zero problems :)
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