MPLAB Starter Kit for PIC24F MCUs... and a Mac. What to do?

[earthtonesaudio]

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?

[slacker]

I'll have to double check, but pretty sure MPLAB runs under wine 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.

[earthtonesaudio]

Excellent, thanks.  I'll check that out.

[scratch]

according to Microchip, MPLAB X works with MacOS ...

http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1406&dDocName=en019469&part=SW007002

[scratch]

MPLAB X is in Beta i see ...

http://www.microchip.com/en_US/family/mplabx/index.html

[earthtonesaudio]

Just compiled wine.  Whew, that took a lot longer than I expected.