*From:* Don Bruder
> *Date:* Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:47:07 -0800
>
> Looking to get into playing with a USB-connected experimenter board
> that talks to a PIC18F4550 chip.
>
> I don't expect to need a LOT of PIC18 code for the project I have
> in mind, but it seems to me that writing it in C (even a pretty
> sharply restricted subset, if need be) would be a whole lot less
> headache than trying to hand-assemble a brand-new-to-me, totally
> foreign assembly language.
>
> What I'm *HOPING* to find is a back end that I can attach to XCode
> to make it produce hex that's ready to be loaded into the PIC18 for
> execution.
>
> Anybody around here know if such a beast exists, and if so, where I
> can find it?
>
> Seems to me like there ought to be something out there to take care
> of this dilemma, considering we've already got gcc as the "guts" of
> XCode. As I understand things, gcc is supposed to mix and match
> back ends to produce code for whatever system/device somebody has
> coded a back end to handle - Two prime examples being the
> production of both PPC code (possibly in multiple flavors, if
> needed) and Intel code in a single build session.
>
> Failing that, can anyone point me to any tools, free/cheap
> preferred, targeting the PIC18 chip-family on the Mac?
>
> Oh, and yes, I'm aware of the one at the htsoft.com website - I've
> downloaded it three times now, and all three downloads have given
> me the same "Verifying archive integrity...Error in checksums:
> is different from number>" output when I try to execute the install script.
>
> Lotsa cross-post, I know - But they all seem to be relevant for the
> query.
>
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Is this the Velleman board? (Can't recall the number) I took the chip out and started again from scratch using a suitable compiler. Just for experimentation purposes there are a couple of free compiler/IDEs
- Steve