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larny
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Posted: 04:55am 10 Mar 2018

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I recently installed MPLABX & have used it to write a programme.

But when I tried to Build it, I received an error message as in the attachment
Output.jpg. I have searched for info on how to set up a Make file to no avail. The Help did not help. See the attachments Make help & Make environment.
I don't understand the Make environment attachment.

Any assistance will be appreciated.

Edited by larny 2018-03-11

Geoffg

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Posted: 07:25am 10 Mar 2018

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MPLAB X uses make to 'orchestrate' the building of the program. make is installed as part of the install of MPLAB X.

I don't know what is wrong in your setup but make is trying to build a file/project called Makefile and it does not have the instructions to do this. Normally make and its scripts are hidden from the user of MPLAB X so this indicates something is seriously wrong in the project configuration.

My solution would be to start a with completely new MPLAB X project and not fiddle with any of its settings. There is are a lot of things that can go wrong here - it is not an easy process.

Good luck.

Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net

larny
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Posted: 08:57am 13 Mar 2018

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Thanks Geoff,
I have been distracted by an urgent house project that I should have done several weeks ago.

I uninstalled MPLAB X and re-installed it. I could not work out how to import a MPLAB 8 project. I did it once before, but then ran into the Makefile issue.

However, I don't really need MPLAB X. All I need is a MPLAB 8 that can cope with the PIC 16F1708.

I discovered that there is a MPLAB 8.14.05 which is later than the v8.92 that I have. So I tried to download it from the Microchip site but could not find it. Every search I did led to info I did not want.

Does anyone know where I can find MPLAB 8.14.05?

Any assistance will be appreciated.

Frank N. Furter
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Posted: 10:35am 13 Mar 2018

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Try it here!
Scroll down and you will find it under: MPLAB IDE Archives

Frank

larny
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Posted: 09:16pm 13 Mar 2018

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Thanks Frank, much appreciated.

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