Software Development System Installation

[Mike Betts]

There have been numerous threads and posts concerning the new MPLAB, C18 compiler and problems with compiling default code. The purpose of this post/thread is to document my journey…

First of all, I am running XP home SP2 with the firewall ON in its default configuration. I am also running AVG 7.03 resident shield and Spybot 1.3 with inoculations resident.

First, I uninstalled old versions of MPLAB, C18 and IFI Loader, in that order. Uninstall of C18 was notable in that XP reported that C18 was already uninstalled and asked me if I wanted the icons removed. I said yes and moved on…

I downloaded the full version of MPLAB 7.00 from Microchip. I also downloaded C18 2.40 (via the FIRST link). I also downloaded IFI Loader 1.0.10 from IFI. Note that I did not use any files from the CDROM included in the 2005 kit.

I performed a full install of MPLAB 7.00 and answered NO to installation of ICD and ICE support. No issues.

I then performed a full install of C18 2.40 with, apparently, no issues. During the install, I checked all boxes involving the addition of C18 to my PATH, et cetera.

After the C18 install, XP complained "Application Has Failed to Start Because Framedyn.dll Was Not Found" when I started Spybot. I reinstalled Spybot which had no effect.

After reviewing information at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;319114, I verified that framedyn.dll was not corrupted. However, I did find a problem in my PATH.

I corrected by PATH to be: C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\system32 \wbem;C:\mcc18\mpasm;C:\mcc18\bin;<and more PATH variables not relevant to FIRST> and that problem went away.

The IFI Loader installation went uneventfully except for it complaining that there were shared files in use. I told it to continue and the rest of the installation was normal.

Whew!

After all of that, I was able to build Team 177’s 2004 robot code, FRC’s 2005 default code, Kevin Watson’s 2005 navigation demonstration code and FRC’s 2005 camera code with no errors.

I will not be able to test on a robot until this afternoon. If I have problems, I’ll let everyone know…

I hope this information saves some of you some grief and frustration. Please feel free to post your experiences.

Regards,

Mike

P.S.: Moderator, please make this thread a sticky for the next week or two… Thanks.