RE: RE: [PIC] gputils-mplab

Thanks for the clarification. I guess Microchip will
probably not answer my question regarding the plug-in. ;-(

Actually I am quite curious about how you write 
gputils-mplab. The specifications of the .mtc and .ini 
file inside the plug-in directory are not published to the 
public by Microchip. I assume it is only given to some 
leading third party tool vendors. I could be wrong though.

C:\Program Files\Microchip\MPLAB IDE\Core\MTC Suites

The latest plug-ins from Hi-Tech is in dll format.
For example, the following is the batch file from
HiTech PICC18.

@echo off
regsvr32 "C:\HTSOFT\PIC18\Suite_HITECH18.dll"

I again assume that the format of the dll file is missing
from Microchip.

Anyway the tool suite plug-in is not really that important
for the use of gpasm. It is nice to have but not
essential. A simple makefile and a nice text editor
can do the job.

The more important plug-in is to let third-party programmers
(or debuggers if there is any cheaper ones) to be plugged into 
MPLAB, for example, let xwisp2 be used inside MPLAB as an
alternative programmer.

C:\Program Files\Microchip\MPLAB IDE\PICkit\MPPICkit.dll
is an example of such a plug-in (for PICkit 1). Again the
specification of such dll is missing from Microchip.

All in all, the above plug-ins are not so important than
the on-chip debug specifications and the communication protocol 
(programming and debugging) of ICD2 to the public.

With gputils/gpsim/sdcc getting better and better and 
open source programmers like JDM/WISP628/PICkit2, the only
missing tool is an open source hardware debugger which
support PIC16/18/dsPIC ...

Regards,
Xiaofan

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-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Franklin 
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 1:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [gnupic] RE: [PIC] gputils-mplab

That behavior is completely controlled by MPLAB.  It is not a 
gputils-mplab bug.  Ask Microchip, if you figure out the answer, 
please post it to this list.