Finally!

We blogged about MPLABX, Microchip’s upcoming cross-platform IDE for working with PIC microcontrollers, some time ago. The software is still in beta, with an official release expected some time in January. At the time of the original post, while it was very exciting that MPLABX was up and coming and that it would provide cross-platform PIC IDE support, it was frustrating that certain pieces of software, namely the Microchip C compilers, were unavailable for some platforms (Mac OSX, in particular).

Today, however, I can excitedly report that all compilers for Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux are now available, in addition to the MPLABX IDE. Furthermore, beta version 4.1 has been released if you are running the Windows platform. You can head over to the MPLABX download page and get started testing out the software before the January 2011 release (tutorials and other resources are available here). If you do, let us know what you think in the comments below.

UPDATE: There was some initial confusion about C18 that forced us to pull the post. The mplabc18.app that is downloaded from the above site needs to be unzipped in order to work, so try that if you’re experiencing problems.