Swordfish

If your time is worth anything, $100 seems to be a good deal.

I when I started out I had way more time than money. If I were to need this developed now, I'd probably end up paying for the ready-made solution too.

The going rate for a bootloader is $100? Maybe I'm in the wrong business!

What, it's not obvious? Just kidding :wink: In my application, reloading the program is done by reading bytes from an external EEPROM. In your case, the SD card libraries would be involved instead. As stated before, I use a 18F4620 with 64k of program space. My bootloader ended up being 907 bytes lo...

I'm not sure whether so be happy or sad. On one hand I now know that I'm not crazy, but on the other hand, it appears to be an actually compiler bug that needs addressed. And with the disappearance of developer support, I'm not holding my breath. Besides compiling on my "dinosaur" of a laptop, I've ...

I managed to make a custom bootloader for my project using swordfish, so I know it's possible In my situation the new program was loaded via an Ethernet connection, but the same concepts apply. This page helped me understand what I needed to do: http://www.etc.ugal.ro/cchiculita/software/picbootload...

I get the error on a Intel Core 2 Duo T7200. Enabling/disabling virtualization has no effect. It doesn't seem to happen on single core machines.

I have SF installed on an old laptop that seems immune to this bug.

I thought the OS might have been at fault as well, so I reformatted the hard drive and re-installed XP. To further rule out any drivers, updates or applications, I installed SF first (before anything else). Still got the error.

That didn't take long... on my very next compile, the error resurfaced. So I can rule out invalid characters. Thanks for the idea though.

I took a few minutes and wrote a little tool to comb through all of my source files. There are no non-displayable characters aside from carriage returns, line feeds and horizontal tabs. Although, I did find a few non-standard characters. They were all in commented text from ported C code. But they a...

Could be the text is messed up. This is more along the lines of what I was thinking. Somehow the IDE and the compiler are having a trouble communicating properly. I'm also the user who gets IDE Access Violation errors. They may be related. But I don't understand why it would fail to compile correct...

I double checked and my installs are definitely up to date. I personally don't think this a bank switching issue. This is because just inserting or deleting comments will change the way the code is compiled.

I seem to be the only one with this particular issue. But just in case some one else comes up against this and wonders if I developed a work around... I have discovered one computer in my lab that doesn't generate this bug if I compile on it. It's an old laptop (Averatec 3250, AMD 2200+ processor, W...

So much for the VM work around... I'm now getting the error inside of my VirtualBox'ed setup as well. It would be nice if the makers of Swordfish decided to actually provide some help here. I get the feeling they've long since abandoned this forum. This compiler was has become almost impossible to u...

Jerry, Working with the ethernet stack has been an adventure. It's a very complicated piece of work. It took me a long time to get my head wrapped around how it all worked. The version I use now is heavily modified. There have been a ton of updates and bug fixes to the official Microchip stack since...

The original bug did eventually came back again. It must be related to an XP update or a piece of development software I use. I did figure out a workaround. I've put Swordfish on a bare-bones copy of windows XP SP2 running inside VirtualBox . I tried both Virtual PC and VMware server but I couldn't ...