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[Borg123]

HI all - I am currently studing electrical engineering at technikon. One of our subjects requires us to code and program the pic16f877 using MPLAB.

A few months ago i have repented, and started using Linux Mandrake.
I have stopped programming in C with Visual Basic and have started to code and compile using GCC. I was wondering if there was a GCC or something similar that i could use to code and program the pic16f877

basically i am looking for the linux equivalent of MPLAB - can anyone help ?

 

[crust]

There are C compilers for the PIC series, but they have an odd architecture that makes a port of GCC for them difficult. I have not checked in a few months, but I dont think there is a gcc for the pic parts.

 

[Borg123]

OH NO!

that does not sound hopefull
but surly there must be something i can use in linux that will do the same job as MPLAB
i have been looking and ill keep looking but my search wil be alot easier if someone had the name of a linux program

thanks for your help anyway

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Re: OH NO!

that does not sound hopefull
but surly there must be something i can use in linux that will do the same job as MPLAB
i have been looking and ill keep looking but my search wil be alot easier if someone had the name of a linux program

There's nothing like MPLAB (as far as I know), but there are PIC assemblers that run under Linux, and also at least one PIC programmer. Sorry, I've no idea of names as I don't run Linux - if you look on the PICList I seem to remember there's a bit about Linux.

 

[Borg123]

Thanks Nigel Goodwin.

I have an idea - i am gonna try run MPLAB in linux with the use of wine.
I am still quite new with linux so i still have to teach myself how to install and use wine

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Thanks Nigel Goodwin.

I have an idea - i am gonna try run MPLAB in linux with the use of wine.
I am still quite new with linux so i still have to teach myself how to install and use wine

I have heard it works under wine, good luck!.

 

[Nek]

I do all my PIC stuff exclusivly on Linux although I do stick to asm.
Get the latest version of gputils for the compiler, gpsim for the simulator and there are lots of programmers available like prog84, picprg etc...

 

[bluex_scf]

you can use

http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/

but for 16F877 you can use HiTech Pic C Lite compiler (Freeware) that can generate a code until 2 Ko . so if your code is small that's quite well.

good luck

 

[Borg123]

Thanx

to all you guys - thanks alot - esp Nek and bluex_scf !!
you have given me something to go on

ps. Nek - are you a seasoned linux user ? wot you running - i am still new so i am starting out with mandrake (mandrax