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PIC
For a course on software for realtime and embedded systems I was invited to explore a PIC microcontroller. Up to that point my primary and only target had been the ATMEGA mcu. The actual mcu was a PIC 18F97J60, installed on the PIC-MAXI-WEB development board by Olimex.
Development Environment
$ port search gputils
gputils @1.2.0 (devel)
GNU PIC Utilities
$ sudo port install gputils
Password:
---> Fetching archive for gputils
...
---> Updating database of binaries: 100.0%
---> Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0%
---> No broken files found.
$ sudo port install sdcc29
---> Computing dependencies for sdcc29
---> Dependencies to be installed: boost icu
...
---> Updating database of binaries: 100.0%
---> Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0%
---> No broken files found.Note: I had to use sdcc29 to be able to work on an assigned project with dependencies on bugs in this compiler version to work correctly, functionally. E.g.: long long only has limited support in the 3.3 branch, while the 2.9 branch allowed this due to a bug and considers it to be a simple long.
To be able to compile the provided example code, the Makefile had to be adapted to match the paths used by the port:
# The original Makefile had many hard-code paths to e.g. /usr/local
# When installing the compiler using package management, like MacPorts, the
# following changes allow the use of e.g. port sdcc29 (not sdcc! which is 3.3.0)
ifneq ($(wildcard /opt/local/libexec/sdcc29),)
PREFIX=/opt/local/libexec/sdcc29
INCLUDE_DIR=$(PREFIX)/share/sdcc/include/pic16
LIB_DIR=-L$(PREFIX)/share/sdcc/lib/pic16 \
-L$(PREFIX)/share/sdcc/lib/src/pic16/libc
BIN=$(PREFIX)/bin/
else
# default setup
INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/share/sdcc/include
LIB_DIR=-L/usr/local/lib/pic16
BIN=
endif
