[sdiy] Microchip compilers now all free

[Neil Johnson]

For the 8-bitters there is already AVR-GCC, and for the ARM 32-bitters
there's ARM-GCC.  It's only really the 16-bit dsPICs that don't have a
clean GCC toolchain.

On Thu, 9 Jul 2026 at 09:30, Adam (synthDIY) <synthdiy at adambaby.com> wrote:

> Free.. as in beer.
>
> > On 9 Jul 2026, at 18:18, cheater cheater via Synth-diy <
> synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
> >
> > Free as in freedom?
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 10:17 AM Neil Johnson via Synth-diy
> > <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I see Microchip has finally made all of their compilers completely free:
> >>
> >>
> https://www.microchip.com/en-us/tools-resources/develop/mplab-xc-compilers
> >>
> >> Hopefully a good sign, rather than a bad one....
> >>
> >> Neil
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