Why is setting up "HI-TECH" C compiler in MPLAB such a headache?

[iamwhoiam]

Why is setting up "HI-TECH" C compiler in MPLAB such a headache?

I have a licence, have activated the HI-TECH compiler, but what a faff about trying to point MPLAB to it. All I see is red crosses all the way, and some nonsense about drivers not being available for a PIC.

Electronics is simple, as it's based on physics - natural laws - they don't change at all, and a circuit is pretty predictable. Suddenly when you involve code and programming, along with geeks, it all becomes a horrendously buggy mess... a total ball ache! Please, would someone explain how to setup MPLAB and HI-TECH compiler on Win7 x64, so I can actually build *physical* circuits and not piss about in the land of virtual objects, code, bugs and all that fluff.

Thanks guys - just annoyed how much of a faff this all is.

[ErikTheNorwegian]

Hi..

this tread is about same problem..
http://forum.htsoft.com/all/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/35432/Main/32092


 and try this book.. (PDF)..   

http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~microlab/MicroLab/PicDoc/manual.pdf

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Hmm. I Just started using Hitech C a couple of days ago. MPLAB 8.84, Win7 x64. I used ASM for a while, and then decided to try C. I couldn't figure out how get it to work with C, so I watched a laborious Microchip video which boiled down to - Project>Project Wizard. At Step 2, drop down the 'Active Toolsuite' box and pick 'HiTech Universal Toolsuite'. So I did, and there it was.

I seem to recall the video saying that this Universal Toolsuite contained the components necessary to integrate with MPLAB - it could be installed and upgraded independently of the compiler. Maybe your installation doesn't have those bits, for some reason?

Anyway, the behaviour your seeing is not normal, though that's no great consolation.

Regards
John