Problem getting Proton Compiler Integrated with MPLAB

[xlh1460]

Hi,

I am running Windows 7.

I have MPLAB IDE 8.50 and installed the latest Proton Developer Suite according to the instructions here.

I performed the steps to add the proton compiler to MPLAB (copied the MTC and INI files and imported the REG file)

Proton is not showing up in MPLAB as an available tool suite.

I did exactly the same steps on my Windows XP laptop and it works fine.

Does anyone have any clues on how to get this to work or where to look for the answer?

Thanks.

[pickit2]

The way crownhill run the reg file is wrong, The way I did it for win7 64bit was as I don't use PBP, I renamed the Proton MTC and INI files to use the PBP names.  PBP.mtc to PBP.mtc  TLCHILL.ini to TLmELabs.ini
Also in the Proton files you need to remove the spaces (Data = 0)  to this  (Data=0)
In MPLab select PBP as tool to use (forget about PBP.BAT and point to PDS in *.exe to use.

[xlh1460]

Thank you.

I did as you suggested but I don't see PBP in MPLAB tool suites either. 

[pickit2]

You did do the Mplab install with full admin rights (ritht click run as administrator)
You could use any of the tools, that you don't use PBP was the one I used.

[xlh1460]

Pretty sure I didn't.  I am going to un-install and reinstall it and see if that helps.

If not, I have it working with VMware (feels like a cop out though)  

Posted on: June 01, 2010, 07:14:31 19:14 - Automerged
I just did a fresh install of MPLAB 8.50 on Win7 64bit with run as administrator.

I checked and the files PBP.mtc and TLmELabs.ini both exist in the MTC Suites directory and I have not touched them yet.

When I run MPLAB, there doesn't appear to be any option to choose PBP in the list of registered tools.

I am baffled.

[pickit2]

There seems to be two problems one is to use PDS you need MPLAB installed, and the other is getting MPLAB to see Proton.
 I used PBP file names for the ones in PDS folder to solve the second error.

[xlh1460]

Ok, I finally got it to work.

All I did was to install MPLAB and set the PBP tool suite settings to point to the proton compiler.

I did not do anything with the mtc or ini or reg files.  This seems to work.

Thanks for providing this solution.

[xlh1460]

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microchip\MPLAB IDE\Legacy Language Suites\{7061B6DE-8C57-4214-84D1-80C128616F8A}]
""="TLCHILL.INI"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microchip\MPLAB IDE\Legacy Language Suites\{7061B6DE-8C57-4214-84D1-80C128616F8A}\{A2FE8A73-2C0C-4370-8AFC-F96042F96EE0}]
""=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microchip\MPLAB IDE\Legacy Language Suites\{7061B6DE-8C57-4214-84D1-80C128616F8A}\Tools]
""=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microchip\MPLAB IDE\Legacy Language Suites\{7061B6DE-8C57-4214-84D1-80C128616F8A}\Tools\{97BFAF35-53CA-48a6-AC24-6ADE1454C57C}]
""="PROTON.MTC"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microchip\MPLAB IDE\Legacy Language Suites\{7061B6DE-8C57-4214-84D1-80C128616F8A}\Tools\{97BFAF35-53CA-48a6-AC24-6ADE1454C57C}\{313A5C32-6728-4493-AACB-FDFF85A6132C}]
""="PROTON.MTC"



Posted on: June 13, 2010, 01:41:22 01:41 - Automerged
Oops.

The listing shows the Crownhill supplied registry file slightly modified.

Using this one, their integration instructions work fine with Windows 7 64-bit.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microchip\MPLAB IDE\Legacy Language Suites\{7061B6DE-8C57-4214-84D1-80C128616F8A}]
""="TLCHILL.INI"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microchip\MPLAB IDE\Legacy Language Suites\{7061B6DE-8C57-4214-84D1-80C128616F8A}\{A2FE8A73-2C0C-4370-8AFC-F96042F96EE0}]
""=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microchip\MPLAB IDE\Legacy Language Suites\{7061B6DE-8C57-4214-84D1-80C128616F8A}\Tools]
""=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microchip\MPLAB IDE\Legacy Language Suites\{7061B6DE-8C57-4214-84D1-80C128616F8A}\Tools\{97BFAF35-53CA-48a6-AC24-6ADE1454C57C}]
""="PROTON.MTC"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microchip\MPLAB IDE\Legacy Language Suites\{7061B6DE-8C57-4214-84D1-80C128616F8A}\Tools\{97BFAF35-53CA-48a6-AC24-6ADE1454C57C}\{313A5C32-6728-4493-AACB-FDFF85A6132C}]
""="PROTON.MTC"