| Creating a C Plugin for the Pic Microcontroller? [message #504278] |
Thu, 17 December 2009 23:03  |
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I have been away from eclipse for a while. I have used in mainly as a java developer (beginner).
Now I have started a new hobby of programming PIC Microcontrollers
To be blunt the IDE in MP Lab is horrible. I would like to improve on it. What a better way to do it than using Eclipse but I am not sure where to get started.
I know there is a plugin out there already but it only seems to work with the 32 bit micros and is not well supported.
I know I need to create a plug in. I have been through the Hello World samples but need more direction.
Would I just add a plugin to the existing C++ plugin that is already out there? Just adding to the functionality of C++?
Or would I create my new plugin based one the C++ plugin and modify it from there?
I know yoy can create a plugin in the plugin wizard based on an existing plugin but I am not exactly sure how to do this for C++ or even if I am supposed to be doing this.
Can anyone please give me a push in the right direction or point me to a resource?
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| Re: Creating a C Plugin for the Pic Microcontroller? [message #670392 is a reply to message #509522] |
Fri, 13 May 2011 16:25  |
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It's good to see that there's effort being made here, but personally (as a physicist and electrical engineer) there seems to be room to go and I, too, think that the MP Lab IDE is a total let down. This is exacerbating given how much I was charged for it.
I think it might be best if it were to work not merely with C, but also PICBasic and straight-up assembler, as unlike most programmers we often do have to worry about memory and program size constraints. It would also be nice to have a simulation module that tries to work out how the program would run on the actual chip (virtual machine style).
In the meanwhile, you might consider an alternative of some of the tools available for Ubuntu. They're just as functional and easy to get a hold of. Look for the piklab, gpsim, and gputils packages; they're in the main Ubuntu repository next to a few others. It's not Eclipse, but it's the next best thing.
--Mike Pritt
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