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Originally Posted by Qbranch
If you had some kind of issue with using MPLAB, you could write your code or word or edit or whatever text editor you want, and just call the compiler from the command line.
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There's enough freeware editors that you should download one instead of trying to make Word work.
Also, I can almost guarantee that if you compile/link by hand, you will become discouraged and screw it up.
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Originally Posted by Qbranch
If you don't like C18, HiTech (not to be confused with HiTec who makes airplane servos/receivers) also makes a compiler for embedded processors. |
Just a word of warning: any alternative compiler you use will likely NOT be supported by us or IFI. (I know of no teams that don't use MCC18.) If you do use it, it
MUST be able to read libraries created by MCC18.
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Originally Posted by Qbranch
On the Eclipse subject... theoretically using that IDE should work since most of what an IDE is is a text editor as said before. And since you aren't using an ICD or ICE there shouldn't be any issues with interfacing with the debugger. Personally I like MPLAB but have used Eclipse as well... if you really want to try it I'll bet it can be done.
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It's not as hard as he makes it out to be:
- Get Eclipse
- Get the CDT (C/C++ Development Toolkit)
- an MCC18 toolchain plugin (prograid's original)
Also, I'm one of the people working on improving Eclipse's support of the MCC18.