PIC C Compiler question

Pat Amaral · Post by **Pat Amaral** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:54 am

I'm going through Predko's book, 123 PIC Microcontroller Experiments for the Evil Genius. The various projects in the book call for using the MPLAB IDE suite in conjunction with the PICC Lite Compiler. I'd like to use the software mentioned in the book to make completing the projects easier without having to translate them to a different platform but I'm having trouble locating a copy of PICC Lite. Microchip has a Hi-Tech C Compiler available for download. Does anyone know if this is the same (re-titled, updated version) as PICC?

Also, will this work with the PICKit1 programmer? That's what I have to work with right now.

Thanks in advance,

tetsujin · Post by **tetsujin** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 9:00 am

I'm not sure, but it seems like it probably is... Google searches for "picc lite" turn up mention of HI-TECH, which leads to the current HI-TECH compilers on Microchip and on HI-TECH's website...
(at any rate - if it's Microchip's recommended compiler, it's probably a good one to invest yourself in...)

The compiler or assembler you use should have no bearing on what hardware you use to write the code to the chip.

Pat Amaral · Post by **Pat Amaral** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 3:54 am

Thanks for the input tetsujin. I went ahead and loaded the HI-Tech version and it all seems to work fine.

Cheers,