Description
I've been getting into PIC programming, and I like to use Mac OS X. While finding tools for PIC programming on OS X is getting easier, it's still kind of a pain to track down all the pieces for a good tool chain.
PIC on OS X is an attempt to gather all the basic tools into one place so anyone starting out with PICs on OS X wont have as hard a time as I did :)
I am focused on finding:
- Compiler and linker for C (and ASM)
- Program to program the chips over USB (using Microchip PICKit 1)
- A good IDE or Editor
Currently I am using (and therefore the tools are for) the Microchip PICKit 1 Flash Starter Kit (with firmware version 2)
Download
The download contains (for PPC only):
- gputils. Compiler, linker, etc for making ASM files to HEX files.
- UsbPicKit.app. Program used to program the HEX files to the chips. You also might want to try http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/pickit.tgz the official Microchip app that does the same thing.
- PicExample. An Example project for the Eclipse platform that has a build script that invokes the compiler.
