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Hi,


soon I buy the EasyPIC3 board, but I just have some follow-up questions.

Can I use my MPLAB ICD2 on the board, if I modify the connection from a IDC10 connector to a ICD2 connector?

Some of the example program following the board are in C. Can I compile them in mikroC - or other C compilers, and then copy-paste the code to MPLAB - and it'll work?

Does anyone know a cheap C compiler I can buy - the mikroC compiler from mikroElektronika is pretty expensive ($249).
 
Electronics4you said:
Some of the example program following the board are in C. Can I compile them in mikroC - or other C compilers, and then copy-paste the code to MPLAB - and it'll work?

Does anyone know a cheap C compiler I can buy - the mikroC compiler from mikroElektronika is pretty expensive ($249).

Usually PIC C compilers aren't cross-compatible; at best, you would probably have to change some syntax, at worst, you might have to rewrite quite a bit of it.

Best and cheapest C compiler I've used is BoostC; the free version goes a long way, and even the full versions are pretty reasonable (about $60 last I knew). For the most part, it's ANSI C compatible, so if the example code isn't relying on a bunch of built-in functions of that compiler, it should be easier to convert.
 
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