Ryan
HI-TECH team member
Reged: Jan 06 2004
Posts: 493
Loc: Brisbane, Australia
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Being the first release under MacOSX we have simply adapted our UNIX shell installer. Most those requesting seemed to be familiar with the UNIX side of OSX but for those that are not, here are a few steps to get things going.
- Put the installer on your desktop.
- Open a terminal (Applications->Utilities->Terminal)
- Change to the Desktop in the terminal (type: 'cd ~/Desktop' then enter)
- Ensure the executable is executable (type: 'chmod +x picc-demo.run' then enter)
- Run the installer (type: './picc-demo.run' then enter)
- Follow the prompts to complete the installation being sure to enter full path names when prompted. eg. /Applications/HI-TECH/PICC_9.50 or /Users/username/HI-TECH/PICC_9.50
- *To configure the environment variables you simply have to logout & login (of OSX not just the shell).
- HI-TIDE, if installed, is an app package which can be moved around and double clicked from a finder window.
- HI-TIDE requires JAVA 1.5+ this can be downloaded from: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/java/
* if you already have a ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist file the installer assumes you know what you're doing and you need to add the entries manually as prompted.
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brikk
Reged: Nov 15 2005
Posts: 2
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I'm very pleased to see support for OS X. It's about time someone did this one might say! I had one problem during install because I misunderstood the "To configure the environment variables you simply have to logout & login.", I thought I just had to logout from shell, when I should actually log out & in of OS X. Bummer  But now it's up and running flawlessly!
Anyway, since I'm new to the PIC programming, I'm considering getting myself a PICDEM 2 PLUS development board along with the ICD 2. My question is: Using the Hitech IDE for OS X, can I use the debugging function of the ICD 2?
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Ryan
HI-TECH team member
Reged: Jan 06 2004
Posts: 493
Loc: Brisbane, Australia
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Not at this point in time... but I can assure you there is someone working on it right now so hopefully early next year we will open the ICD2 up to all our supported OSs.
Thanks for the comments, I'll be sure to clarify the logout/in.
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brikk
Reged: Nov 15 2005
Posts: 2
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Not at this point in time... but I can assure you there is someone working on it right now so hopefully early next year we will open the ICD2 up to all our supported OSs.
Thanks for the comments, I'll be sure to clarify the logout/in.
This sounds promising. Can you tell me if the debugger support will be available also in the lite version, or only in the full one? Thank you for your answers.
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Ryan
HI-TECH team member
Reged: Jan 06 2004
Posts: 493
Loc: Brisbane, Australia
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As far as I am aware, support will be available in PICC lite.
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tiagra
Reged: Dec 06 2005
Posts: 1
Loc: Moscow, Russia or Berlin, Germ...
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Hi, just started off mit PIC18F258 for some CAN-Bus stuff - unfortunately this is my first project, but i urgently need to dive into th serious matters, so no time for tinkering with flashing LEDs (ok, i did one ).
Installed PicLite + HiTide on a 12" Powerbook (recent series) and it worked out flawlessly. Really looking forward to ICD2 support - once this step is taken, OSX would be a complete developement platform and i'd not hesitate to buy the compiler itself, too.
Thanks a lot for the developement in this direction,
Martin
EDIT: Just noticed the difference... this version doesn't support any kind of pic18xxxx - i hould have read further :/ when do you think something like piclite18 will be available? actually i need it now ))
Edited by tiagra (Tue Dec 06 2005 10:02 AM)
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Ryan
HI-TECH team member
Reged: Jan 06 2004
Posts: 493
Loc: Brisbane, Australia
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EDIT: Just noticed the difference... this version doesn't support any kind of pic18xxxx - i hould have read further :/ when do you think something like piclite18 will be available? actually i need it now ))
We will be releasing a HI-TIDE (sans simulator and code creation tool) supported PICC18 version in the next week or two. The simulator and code creation tool will be added early next year and a lite version may also be on the cards at that time.
So I'm afraid I cannot offer you a picc18-lite right now but hey we're working towards it.
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Shayaan Siddiqui
Reged: Feb 11 2006
Posts: 3
Loc: NJ, United States
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What chips are compatible with the free compiler?
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Dan Henry
Guru
Reged: Oct 16 2003
Posts: 3130
Loc: Boulder, Colorado U.S.A.
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http://www.htsoft.com/products/PICClite.php
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Robin_of_Sussex
Reged: Nov 26 2003
Posts: 116
Loc: Sussex, in the South of Englan...
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When might we see MAC OS X and ICD2 support ?
-Also- one would presume that this would mean we could control the build process with a stadard Makefile, as MACOS-X is a unix based OS.
Currently we need to pre-process coff files (to insert CRC checks into ROM code). This is achieved by tricking the MPLAB/ICD into thinking our compiled C program running on the PC is the linker, when in fact it calls the linker and then processes the coff file.
Having all this under Makefile control would be far more civillised....
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