Free alternative to MPLAB (PIC development)

Question

I started using MPLAB recently, but for someone that works with Eclipse and VS the IDE it\'s very limited. Do you know any free IDE or how to configure Ecplise or Netbeans to PI

Answer 1

The underlying toolchain (compiler/linker etc.) can be used from any environment including Eclipse and Visual Studio, though Eclipse is probably the more flexible in this respect.

MPLAB has a feature to export a project as a makefile that can be used with GNU make, although you may rather generate your own makefile, or use the project management provided by Eclipse. In Visual Studio, create a Makefile Project, despite its name, you can specify any build command line, so invoke a batch file or makefile as necessary. Eclipse can use makefile projects also.

In Visual Studio, add all your project and compiler Include paths to teh project manually to get all the Intellisense navigation features to work.