That darned clib.lib

[ebowla]

After poring over numerous errors... NOT EVEN CODE ERRORS! I'm using default 2007 code trying to get it to compile, but I had a large number of problems. After fixing many of them, I have narrowed it down to 1. I get the stupid error that MPLAB couldnt find clib.lib. I have MPLAB 7.20 and C18 2.40. I did a search on my entire computer for all *.lib files. Only 12 hits thankfully, but I did not have the clib.lib anywhere.

Could someone direct me to where I can get this clib.lib? where to put it? Or anything that might fix my problem that I wasn't thinking of.

Thanks.

[Richard McClellan]

I had that same problem about a month ago. It has to do with MPLab not recognizing the compiler. I was getting the message because I installed MPLab after the C18 compiler, and you really need to do it in the other order.

There might be a way to fix it by changing something in your build options or something, but I don't know what exactly, so I uninstalled the C18 compiler, and reinstall it, and it worked.

[baop858]

By default it's C:\mcc18\lib if it isn't there, I would suggest reinstalling the c18 complier.

[jtdowney]

You usually get this error if your MPLAP project doesn't have the right library path set.

[comphappy]

Originally Posted by baop858

By default it's C:\mcc18\lib if it isn't there, I would suggest reinstalling the c18 complier.

You need to go to the project menu then build options then project
On the directory tab select Library Search Path, create a new one that points to the mcc18\lib folder where ever that may be, it might be in C:\Program Files\ or just under C:\

[ebowla]

I uninstalled it and reinstalled it and finally I have clib.lib. I checked before I uninstalled and I DID NOT have a lib folder in my mcc18 folder which was under C:\Program files\Microchip\mcc18\....and then nothing useful.

I dont know how it happened but fixed now.

[John Hooper]

Originally Posted by comphappy

You need to go to the project menu then build options then project
On the directory tab select Library Search Path, create a new one that points to the mcc18\lib folder where ever that may be, it might be in C:\Program Files\ or just under C:\

You, my friend, have just saved me an enormous amount of time and aggravation! Works perfectly now. Thanks.

[rpgcubed]

Thank you so much! I wasted three hours working on this.