I INSTALLED USING EASY ZIP FILE FROM SOURCEFRORGE AND IT WENT OFF NO PROBLEMS.
BUT NOW WHEN I DRAG THE TEST.ASM ICON ONTO THE GCBASIC.EXE ICON I GET MSG THAT THE DIRECTORY IS MISSING MESSAGES.DAT.
BUT I CAN SEE, AND OPEN, IN NOTEPAD, THAT FILE IN THE DIRECTORY.
I SEE IN THE PARAMETERS THAT I CAN SET PARAMETERS FOR GCBASIC.EXE IF I WANT TO TRY IT IN COMMAND.COM
WHY CAN'T I SEE THE MESSAGES.DAT FILE IN THIS DIRECTORY?
Last edit: Dan Ambroise 2013-12-04
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In the readme file that was part of the .zip it has instructions below about next steps to install. Have you done those steps?
If not, you can just download the .exe installer from the same page as the .zip.
Or you can install the GCB@SYN which includes a great IDE to write your programs from the link in Anobium's reference.
Or you can download the same GCB@SYN optimized for PICs and PICkit 2 as a complete windows installation .exe from my site:
GreatCowBasic.com.
Readme:
Thank you for downloading Great Cow BASIC!
To use this version, the following must be done:
1a. Install gputils to its default location (C:\Program Files\gputils),
-- OR --
1b. Install MPASM to the GCBASIC directory.
2. Alter the included compile.bat file according to the instructions within
If you find these instructions confusing and are running MS Windows, please use the .exe installer that is also available from the GCBASIC web page. This will do these things automatically.
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I also am having problems with a new install of the GCB@SYN on an thinkpad XP laptop. I like the IDE and it compiles just fine but the code doesn't run correctly. The same code was compiled on an ubuntu machine running GCBasic version Make Oct2007 and that runs fine.
Trying to track down the problem. Can call one subroutine but if that subroutine calls another it will crash the PIC.
I will compare asm's tomorrow. One difference is I am using mpasm on the ubuntu machine.
Any ideas?? suggestions?
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I INSTALLED USING EASY ZIP FILE FROM SOURCEFRORGE AND IT WENT OFF NO PROBLEMS.
BUT NOW WHEN I DRAG THE TEST.ASM ICON ONTO THE GCBASIC.EXE ICON I GET MSG THAT THE DIRECTORY IS MISSING MESSAGES.DAT.
BUT I CAN SEE, AND OPEN, IN NOTEPAD, THAT FILE IN THE DIRECTORY.
I SEE IN THE PARAMETERS THAT I CAN SET PARAMETERS FOR GCBASIC.EXE IF I WANT TO TRY IT IN COMMAND.COM
WHY CAN'T I SEE THE MESSAGES.DAT FILE IN THIS DIRECTORY?
Last edit: Dan Ambroise 2013-12-04
In the readme file that was part of the .zip it has instructions below about next steps to install. Have you done those steps?
If not, you can just download the .exe installer from the same page as the .zip.
Or you can install the GCB@SYN which includes a great IDE to write your programs from the link in Anobium's reference.
Or you can download the same GCB@SYN optimized for PICs and PICkit 2 as a complete windows installation .exe from my site:
GreatCowBasic.com.
Readme:
Thank you for downloading Great Cow BASIC!
To use this version, the following must be done:
If you find these instructions confusing and are running MS Windows, please use the .exe installer that is also available from the GCBASIC web page. This will do these things automatically.
Please see https://sourceforge.net/p/gcbasic/discussion/629990/thread/56f698f5/. This should resolve your issue.
I also am having problems with a new install of the GCB@SYN on an thinkpad XP laptop. I like the IDE and it compiles just fine but the code doesn't run correctly. The same code was compiled on an ubuntu machine running GCBasic version Make Oct2007 and that runs fine.
Trying to track down the problem. Can call one subroutine but if that subroutine calls another it will crash the PIC.
I will compare asm's tomorrow. One difference is I am using mpasm on the ubuntu machine.
Any ideas?? suggestions?
Any progress with resolving your issue?