A coworker lent me a MPLAB Starter Kit for PIC24F MCUs, but I have a Mac, and the software is PC only. I'd like to get started programming the thing, BUT:
I don't have a lot of hard drive space to partition off and run a virtual Windows desktop; and I would not like to spend more than zero dollars for a solution.
Any advice? :)
I'll have to double check, but pretty sure MPLAB runs under wine (http://www.winehq.org/) on Linux, so I guess it does on Macs, don't know if that's an option for you.
Tere's a command line tool for Macs on the Microchip website for actually using the programmer to write to the PICs, assuming you're using a Pickit, so you should be able to use whatever software you can find.
Excellent, thanks. I'll check that out.
according to Microchip, MPLAB X works with MacOS ...
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1406&dDocName=en019469&part=SW007002 (http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1406&dDocName=en019469&part=SW007002)
MPLAB X is in Beta i see ...
http://www.microchip.com/en_US/family/mplabx/index.html (http://www.microchip.com/en_US/family/mplabx/index.html)
Just compiled wine. Whew, that took a lot longer than I expected.