Setupt PIC32 Development environment

PIC32 Development on Mac OS X and Linux
http://www.paintyourdragon.com/uc/osxpic32/index.html

Download the required images:
http://www.paintyourdragon.com/uc/osxpic32/c32-build.tar.gz
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/MPLABC32-v105-Evaluation.exe
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/pic32-microchip-release-1-05-20090302-source.tar.gz
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/pk2cmdv1.20LinuxMacSource.tar.gz


Ubuntu 14.04.2+c32-build = not work~
After the following patch:
http://www.microchip.com/forums/m416697.aspx

But still have issue on bison 3.0 (Ubuntu 14.04). The general solution to this is to downgrade to bison 2.7.  I don't want to try this on my working computer.


VirtualBox+Ubuntu8.04+c32-build = work!!
I setup a VirtualBox with Ubuntu8.04.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list, replace all the server with "old-releases.ubuntu.com".
Then install the required package:

apt-get update
apt-get install bison cpp flex g++ gcc gettext  patch patchutils
libncurses5-dev  automake  libtool build-essential libncurses5-dev
zlib1g-dev gawk ccache gettext libssl-dev xsltproc g++ zlib1g-dev gawk
libncurses5-dev
apt-get install wine libusb-dev
apt-get install openssh-server

Then I could complete the procedure without problem.

Ubuntu 14.04.2 + Latest MPLab X IDE + My project

MPLAB- XC Compilers | Microchip Technology Inc.
http://www.microchip.com/mplab/compilers

Get Started with MPLAB® X IDE and Microchip Tools - Developer Help
http://microchip.wikidot.com/tls0101:start


Install the following:

Install MPLAB® X IDE - Developer Help
http://microchip.wikidot.com/install:mplabx

http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/MPLABX-v3.26-linux-installer.tar
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/xc32-v1.40-full-install-linux-installer.run

http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/xc32-v1.31-linux-installer.run.tar

Execute the following to run MPLAB X IDE:
/opt/microchip/mplabx/v3.26/mplab_ide/bin/mplab_ide

I installed the JRE in /usr/java. (ref here)
(java need to be in $PATH, or manually make symbolic link /usr/bin/java to the newly installed JRE java binary)
or on Ubuntu16.04 install JRE directly by:

sudo apt install openjdk-8-jre

Windows 8 + Latest MPLab X IDE + My project
Install the following:
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/MPLABX-v3.26-windows-installer.exe
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/xc32-v1.40-full-install-windows-installer.exe
(It seems XC32 r1.4.0 has known issues, multiple definition of `_atexitptr')
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/xc32-v1.31-windows-installer.exe
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/harmony_v1_07_01_windows_installer.exe

MPLAB® Harmony Configurator (MHC) Installation ...
http://microchip.wikidot.com/harmony:mhc-installation

(2010/12/27) GnuWin32
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html

Download and install the following to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microchip\MPLABX\v3.26\gnuBins:
http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gnuwin32/sed/4.2.1/sed-4.2.1-setup.exe
http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gnuwin32/grep/2.5.1-2/grep-2.5.1-2-bin.exe
http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/win32svn/1.8.15/Setup-Subversion-1.8.15.msi

(2011/03/17) win-bash - bash port for Windows
http://win-bash.sourceforge.net/
http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/win-bash/shell-complete/latest/shell.w32-ix86.zip
ONLY copy the sh.exe to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microchip\MPLABX\v3.26\gnuBins\GnuWin32\bin.

I have a Chinese Windows 8, but it seems MPLAB X doesn't support Chinese and the error message during building project become Chinese and not readable on MPLAB X. I tried changing the system language but not work.

This could be workaround by removing the locale C:\Program Files (x86)\Microchip\MPLABX\v3.26\gnuBins\GnuWin32\share\locale.
(Just rename doesn't work, don't know why)

(2016/10/07) I got missing java.exe on another newly Win7

Changes to port a project between Windows and Linux MPLAB

1. Windows executables has suffix .exe, e.g. date.exe, while Linux doesn't
2. Windows path separate with slash "\", while Linux with backslash"/". Sometimes file path might be written in Windows form, e.g in nbproject/configurations.xml:
   

   ..\..\harmony\framework\driver\ethmac\src\drv_ethmac_local.h

   Change to:
   

   ../../harmony/framework/driver/ethmac/src/drv_ethmac_local.h

3. Windows "make" can expand wildcard in double quote, while Linux doesn't. For example, Linux cannot handle the following:
   

   cp -r "./foo/*" "./foobar"

   I have double quote on every parameter and even some command, it cause problem when there are wildcard in it.
4. Windows "make" seems require additional escape char, while Linux doesn't. For example:
   

   sed -i '/<\\/head>/ i\\' "header.inc"

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http://www.paintyourdragon.com/uc/ubw32/index.html

https://www.microchip.com/development-tools

http://microchip.wikidot.com/tls0101:start

http://microchip.wikidot.com/tls0101:get-compiler

http://www.microchip.com/mplab/compilers

http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/MPLABC32-v105-Evaluation.exe

http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/pic32-microchip-release-1-05-20090302-source.tar.gz

http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/pk2cmdv1.20LinuxMacSource.tar.gz

http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/MPLABC32-v105-Upgrade.exe

http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/MPLABX-v3.26-linux-installer.tar