Electronic Circuits and Projects Forum

Originally Posted by Kryten

Hi

Im interested in using Linux as a platform for developing.
Can anyone suggest software (if there are any) for compiling, programming (pref so i can use my ICD2 clone) PIC uCs ??

It's really a bad idea, there's very little Linux software out there, and none from the chip manufacturers - Windows still rules the world I'm afraid.

I've just installed Windows 7 RC 1 (it's free to try for a year)

I've yet to find out if it's MPLAB & PK2 compatible.

forget about win7 ... it is incompatible with almost everything ....

as for the linux .. I use linux in every day life, on job, for job .. it is my primary OS .. I had to make one windoze box for the elco stuff ... in general you "can" use linux but it is pain in the ....

if your uC of choice is PIC

the mplab 7.1 works under wine 1.0, I think 8.x works too but I never tried.

piklab (native linux app) have support for pickit 2 both with firmware 1.x and 2.x as long as for many other programmers. you have pic asm as native linux and piklab will help you install all the compilers under wine ...

so you can use boostbasic, boostc, boostc++, c18, ccs c, c30, picc lite, jal ... and programm directly from linux if you have pickit2 or compatible device ...

you have geda/gspice/pcbdesigner/eagle for the hw design .. it is not as nice a some windoze tools but it is free.

that's about it ..

I heard AVR is much better support but I never tried..

If you want TI MSP430, it works perfectly under linux (eclipse + mspgcc)

I personally found doing elco dev on linux to be pain so I moved that to windoze ..

Originally Posted by Sceadwian

If it works on Vista it'll should work on Windows 7. I

should being to operative word ...

most of low level net apps do not work (and they do work on vista)
most of tunneling apps do not work (and they do work on vista)
many hw dependant apps do not work (and they do work on vista)

etc etc etc ....
virtual box works like a charm so ... if you do not have a spare box, that's perfect solution

MPLAB currently supports Vista. Vista sucks, can't stand it myself. Win7 seems snappy (on a Phenom quad core anyway).

I'll install mplab 8.3 pk2 2.6 & pk2cnd.exe tonight and report my findings.