Re: want an sdcc howto?

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Hi David,

I see Byron has already pointed to my page :-)

http://ubicomp.lancs.ac.uk/~martyn/sdcc_linux/

I've just revisited it and realised I had neglected to include the serial 
comms examples I had!

I have added them now, though haven't provided much in the way of an 
explaination of how they work. There is an example which uses a simple 
putchar function I wrote and an example showing it working with printf_tiny.

Good luck,

Martyn

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On Friday 15 Jul 2005 01:58, David McNab wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My preference for high-level langages puts me at odds with much of this
> list's membership, but there are those who feel the same as I do.
>
> The problem with high level languages on PIC micros has been the lack of
> a usable, free/opensource implementation.
>
> sdcc has suffered a bad rap because it's very newbie-unfriendly to set
> up and get going. Also, its binary packaging has been botched, at least
> on Debian.
>
> But with a bit of doco, this problem can go away, to the point where
> sdcc's accessibility is on a par with that of the commercial compilers.
>
> I'm willing to write an 'sdcc on PIC Howto', which takes the user step
> by easy step through:
>
>   - downloading the source tarball
>   - configuring the build
>   - building the core toolchain and extras
>   - installing the toolchain, libs, headers and support files
>   - writing a 'hello, world' LED blinker program in C
>   - turning that into a valid and working .hex binary (including
>     a fix for the broken crt0 module)
>   - setting up and using usart-based stdio (so 'printf()' works)
>   - practicalities of C hacking on PIC
>
> Question is - is any interested in actually seeing/using such a
> document? I'd rather get some votes of support before launching in and
> expending several hours on something that might not be used.
>
> I'd really like to see more interest in sdcc on this list, because it's
> the only viable free/opensource high-level language compiler that spans
> both 16F and 18F, and deserves a place as the 'reference' high level
> language for PIC.
>
> Thoughts?

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Martyn Welch ([email protected])

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