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Re: Open-Source FIRST

The only possible PIC18F compiler I could find was sdcc, in which PIC18F support is not yet complete. I think it would be good to try to help contribute to this project (if possible), since most of the building blocks we need are already in place. I could make a modified version of gplink to be able to link to PE-COFF fairly easily since the specification is open.

Thanks for the links to those tools, Astronouth. As for writing suitable modular backends, that's definitely a great point. The command-line/GUI loader I've been working on has a completely modular interface, which can be statically linked against for other projects requiring similar interfaces.

Within the next week or so I could have subversion repos and a mailing list available to start, although it might be better to see if FIRST is open to this. They might be able to lend us a server and a subdomain, or just a subdomain for a server we set up (probably better for us).
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