Doodads and Whatnot

I recently needed to install all the PIC programming tools I use on several Macs. Since people often ask for help installing these kinds of things I’ve decided to put together an installer package containg all the tools I use for the majority of my PIC’n needs. Hopefully someone else will find it useful.

The installer contains universal binaries for:

• Jeff Post’s PK2 v2.01 – for operating the PICkit2 programmer hardware
• GPUTILS v0.13.4 – assembler, linker, etc
• sdcc v2.6.0 – C compiler

I have only tested the installer and resulting binaries on Macs running 10.4.7 (x86 and PPC) so if you try it under a different version of OS X, please let me know how it works.

The following installer contains all three packages (you can choose which ones to install).

PIC toolbox (8.1MB)

IMPORTANT:The installer wont reconfigure your PATH, MANPATH or SDCC_HOME environment variables automatically. The things to add are:

• /usr/local/bin to PATH
• /usr/local/man to MANPATH
• SDCC_HOME=/usr/local

For most people these can be configured by opening a terminal and running the following commands:

echo 'export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export MANPATH=/usr/local/man:$MANPATH' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export SDCC_HOME=/usr/local' >> ~/.bash_profile