From the comments on our earlier post: Open source chipKIT compiler works with other PIC32s:
… it should also be working with other MCHP dev tools shortly.
Via twitter.
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From the comments on our earlier post: Open source chipKIT compiler works with other PIC32s:
… it should also be working with other MCHP dev tools shortly.
Via twitter.
http://chipkit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=13#p50
See this post.
Just FYI: The open source gcc for PIC32 was available for a very long time. I’m working with it for about a year now. ;)
Did it include Microchip’s Secret Sauce (various libraries, linkers, etc)? I believe all Microchip’s compilers are GCC derived, but they have never released various parts that you need with it as open source before.
The complete toolchain was open source. I only copied the plib vom MPLAB, but it isn’t really necessary to do that as you do anything on your own. Also, its source code is available (though not easy to find, iirc).
The only real annoying problem was that I had to reverse any directory delimiters from windows-\ to linux-/ in the microchip application libraries.
Here are btw. the sources (look in the SVN): http://sourceforge.net/projects/microchipopen/ .