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Re: Open-Source FIRST
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Originally Posted by Astronouth7303 View Post
There are open source compilers available for the PIC18F. The only reason we can't use these is IFI's libraries. I don't know how many linkers can use libraries generated by mcc18.
The C18 complier appears to generate Microsoft PE-COFF formatted library files (quickly looking at FRC_library_8722.lib). This format is fairly well documented at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system...re/PECOFF.mspx (click through its a Word document).