MacOS X PIC toolbox

Posted on September 13th, 2006 in Electronics, Nerdy by toholio

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).

Metapackage icon.
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
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