Programming HEX file with MPlab/Inchworm

[gregmcc]

I'm busy building a LCF project from an elektor magazine. I've got the asm and hex file and would like to know how to program it with mplab (using a inchworm)

If I open the asm file and compiled it with mplab there's a ton or errors, so I thought since i've also got the compiled .hex file I could just write it to the PIC.

Can I just open the hex file in mplab and program it? Or does mplab automatically compile the asm file and them program it.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

If it's the one I'm thinking of?, the HEX file doesn't work either - it was bizzarely asembled with masses of blank bytes stored in the HEX file, and pieces of the code missing.

 

[gregmcc]

Its the one by John Becker - LCFmet790.asm Correction - Its also from everyday practical eletronics and not elektor.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Its the one by John Becker - LCFmet790.asm Correction - Its also from everyday practical eletronics and not elektor.

That's a different matter then, that file works fine.

The source code probably isn't written for MPASM, John Becker had never even heard of MPASM until I told him about it years back, he was using a shareware assembler instead?.

To load the HEX file, try File/Import.

 

[gregmcc]

Aah - thanks. That did the trick. Didnt see that import there before