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Don Bruder
Looking to get into playing with a USB-connected experimenter board that
talks to a PIC18F4550 chip.
I don't expect to need a LOT of PIC18 code for the project I have in
mind, but it seems to me that writing it in C (even a pretty sharply
restricted subset, if need be) would be a whole lot less headache than
trying to hand-assemble a brand-new-to-me, totally foreign assembly
language.
What I'm *HOPING* to find is a back end that I can attach to XCode to
make it produce hex that's ready to be loaded into the PIC18 for
execution.
Anybody around here know if such a beast exists, and if so, where I can
find it?
Seems to me like there ought to be something out there to take care of
this dilemma, considering we've already got gcc as the "guts" of XCode.
As I understand things, gcc is supposed to mix and match back ends to
produce code for whatever system/device somebody has coded a back end to
handle - Two prime examples being the production of both PPC code
(possibly in multiple flavors, if needed) and Intel code in a single
build session.
Failing that, can anyone point me to any tools, free/cheap preferred,
targeting the PIC18 chip-family on the Mac?
Oh, and yes, I'm aware of the one at the htsoft.com website - I've
downloaded it three times now, and all three downloads have given me the
same "Verifying archive integrity...Error in checksums: <10-12 digit
number> is different from <different 10-12 digit number>" output when I
try to execute the install script.
Lotsa cross-post, I know - But they all seem to be relevant for the
query.
talks to a PIC18F4550 chip.
I don't expect to need a LOT of PIC18 code for the project I have in
mind, but it seems to me that writing it in C (even a pretty sharply
restricted subset, if need be) would be a whole lot less headache than
trying to hand-assemble a brand-new-to-me, totally foreign assembly
language.
What I'm *HOPING* to find is a back end that I can attach to XCode to
make it produce hex that's ready to be loaded into the PIC18 for
execution.
Anybody around here know if such a beast exists, and if so, where I can
find it?
Seems to me like there ought to be something out there to take care of
this dilemma, considering we've already got gcc as the "guts" of XCode.
As I understand things, gcc is supposed to mix and match back ends to
produce code for whatever system/device somebody has coded a back end to
handle - Two prime examples being the production of both PPC code
(possibly in multiple flavors, if needed) and Intel code in a single
build session.
Failing that, can anyone point me to any tools, free/cheap preferred,
targeting the PIC18 chip-family on the Mac?
Oh, and yes, I'm aware of the one at the htsoft.com website - I've
downloaded it three times now, and all three downloads have given me the
same "Verifying archive integrity...Error in checksums: <10-12 digit
number> is different from <different 10-12 digit number>" output when I
try to execute the install script.
Lotsa cross-post, I know - But they all seem to be relevant for the
query.
