Help setting up MPASM with MicroCode studio

[Tomexx]

1. Installed MPLAB 8.1
2. In MCS, under View - Compile and Program Options - Click the Assembler tab.
3. There is a check box there -- Use MPASM ---
4. Click find Automatically. FOUND.

Is that it, how do I use it?

[mackrackit]

1. Installed MPLAB 8.1
2. In MCS, under View - Compile and Program Options - Click the Assembler tab.
3. There is a check box there -- Use MPASM ---
4. Click find Automatically. FOUND.

Is that it, how do I use it?

As long as the box is checked to use MPASM, when you compile a program ( F9 on the key board), MCS will use MPASAM to assemble the code, you do not have to do anything else.

[Tomexx]

IT is, that's it then.
So PBP is the compiler and MPASM the assembler right? Not sure what is the difference. I thought the compiler translated source into .hex file. What does the assembler do then?

[mackrackit]

PIC Basic compiles the code into assembly language. The assembler generates the hex.

Refer to the PBP manual section 8, for more info.

[Tomexx]

Yeah, just read section 8,
Thanks mackrackit