mikroC linux Version

[bertranddesson]

Does any project about a linux version of mikroC for pic24 ? I will buy the development board LV 24-33 (when it is available... ) and i'm afraid about use Wine or something else for programming.

[Thomas]

I use Wine for programming several platforms, including the Parallax SX and Propeller. The only glitches you could run across there would be serial port issues. I have *not* been able to get mikroC for dsPIC to run in Linux using Wine.

[LGR]

That last time I attempted it, wine didn't work with Pascal. It would install, but not run. I understand it's a Delphi issue. If someone does get one of the compilers to work, I'd be curious how.

I don't think serial ports would be much of a problem, but the USB driver for the development boards would be.

[Thomas]

It depends on the distrobution. I use FC6, and have had some odd things happen with com ports, on one computer it makes sense, the com port is a USB device, although I linked usbTTY0 (the name is most likely not capitalized correctly in this example) to com1 in the dosdevices folder. It shouldn't make a difference to Wine, as long as it sees a tty device, but it refuses to work.

[LGR]

Just as an aside, I've been using SuSE 10.1, and it's been very unreliable, possibly from a corrupt installation. I'm trying to decide whether to try SuSE 10.2 or FC6. Any opinions?

[Thomas]

I really can't make a comparison, other than I really like Fedora, I've been using it since Core 2. Core 7 wil be out in a few months, it's really stable, and has a lot of tools available for vairous things. I've recently been looking at PIKLab, but it's support for dsPIC/PIC24 is thin. It does, however, support using other toolchains through Wine. It's possible the compiler could work under wine, and just not the MikroE IDE. At the same time, you would need documentation on what to tell the compiler to do.