[JBotAlan]

I had considered this before as I was getting some very erratic behavior out of MPLAB. My guess would be to either consult the MCC18 manual for what EXE needs what parameters (the long way), or watch what gets passed to which EXE in the compiler output in MPLAB and hard-code it (the short way). During off-season, us programmers need to unite and create FIRST-IDE, still using the MCC18 compiler, but blowing away MPLAB's little ability to keep code good-looking, along with nicer features. Since I have to contend with that hideous IDE for another 2 years, it would definitely be worth coding something up to replace it.

Notice: This is not meant in any way to cut on Microchip. Thank you for all that you do, and all the time and money you have put into FIRST. Things would be very hard without the compiler and IDE you donated. Thanks again.

Yeah, eventually I think I'll start a sourceforge for this once I get some off time to start. I'll create a new thread once I get something working.

JBotAlan

PS - keep me posted on what you come up with. I have been very interested in replacing this IDE, and what you want to do sounds cool.