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Microchip C-Bot, easyC Pro or MPLAB IDE?

Hi, my team is currently searching for where to download the C compiler to program our FRC comtroller. We have easyCPro that came with the kit, but the tutorials on

http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc...nt.aspx?id=482

speak of a different compiler called Microchip C-Bot and the tutorial found at

http://www.ifirobotics.com/docs/lega...2-apr-2004.pdf

speaks of another compiler called MPLAB IDE.


We decided to follow the tutorials, but we can't find where to dl Microchip C-Bot. My question is which one is the correct one to use for 2008? Also, are there any tutorials that would go with this compiler. We would prefer to work with line-based code.

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Re: Microchip C-Bot, easyC Pro or MPLAB IDE?

The CBot compact disk came in the Kit-of-Parts wrapped in with the white clipboard.
It has the manuals, MPLAB IDE, and mcc18 compiler.
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Re: Microchip C-Bot, easyC Pro or MPLAB IDE?

You might also want to look at C-free 4, which is a good code developing environment and has a good compiler.
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Re: Microchip C-Bot, easyC Pro or MPLAB IDE?

easyC Pro has the compiler bilt in.
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Re: Microchip C-Bot, easyC Pro or MPLAB IDE?

Thank you very much! Found it. For the sake of curiosity what is the the difference between MPLAB IDE and easyC if they both have text-based compilers?

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Re: Microchip C-Bot, easyC Pro or MPLAB IDE?

MPLAB is a text-only editor.

EasyC is a graphical editor with text editing capabilities.

Both tools handle compilation for you using the same mcc18 compiler and associated tools.

EasyC has it's own built-in robot download tool.

The separate IFI_Loader application must be used to download the robot-ready output produced by MPLAB.
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Re: Microchip C-Bot, easyC Pro or MPLAB IDE?

Thank you very much Mark for clearing things up! I understand now.
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