MCSP, PBP260, Win7 - is it impossible?

[HenrikOlsson]

Hello everyone,
I've had nothing but trouble lately with MCSP. When I first got PBP2.60 a couple of months ago MCSP refused to recognise it saying Compiler not installed although it was pointed to the correct directory. In an effort to resolve that I uninstalled MCSP from the computer after which it refused to reinstall again - for whatever reason. I installed on (from the same CD) on my netbook and it worked fine so I wrote it off as problem with that particular system.

Now I've got a new computer, Intel i5, Win7 64bit and was really looking forward to return from the netbooks tiny screen and keyboard to the office with its 24" monitor - no luck.

I've managed to get MCSP installed and updated by setting the compatibillity mode to WindowsXP and set it to run with adminstrator rights. But the problem is the same as before, it says Compiler not installed even though it does find the correct folder. Trying to compile anyway makes it complain that for PBP2.3 or less MPLAB needs to be in a specific directory - I don't have PBP2.3 or less....

And then finally it says that it can't run ....\Mecanique\MCSP\run.pif because it's not compatible with the 64bit operating system.

Am I the only one trying to run MCSP on Win7 64bit? Is it possible to get it to run? If not what are you using?

Thanks!
/Henrik. (Kind of bummed at the moment...)

[mackrackit]

For what it is worth I am using the MCS that came with PBP2.5 on win7 64bit. No problems and I did not have to do anything "special".

Win7 made a directory "Program Files (x86) and all of the "old" stuff installed there.

[HenrikOlsson]

That's weird. My PBP is installed in C:\PBP and MCSP in the (X86) folder just like yours. If I don't try to use MPASM as the assembler all I get when trying to compile is an error message saying that the file ...MSCP\run.pif can't be run because it's not compatible with the 64bit version of Windows. If I try to use MPASM, well then there's the other error as well. Frustrating.

Thanks!
/Henrik.

[mackrackit]

I am using MPASM too.
Probably not a big enough difference but I have the "see through" title bars turned off. My win7 looks kind of like XP.

What happens if you try compiling from the command line or make your own BAT file to run?

[Darrel Taylor]

Probably not the best thing to do security wise, but ...

You might try disabling the UAC.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...windows-vista/
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[HenrikOlsson]

Hi,
Well, I have Aero turned off too, have it set to "XP-theme". MELABS says that one must use MPASM with 64bit versions of Windows so trying not to wasn't a good idea on my behalf. Still, when using MPASM it gives me more errors.

Darrel, I'll give that UAC thing a try. I've already set MCSP to run as Administrator but perhaps there are other things that need to as well. Turning it off - at least temporarily - will show if that is where the problem is. However, since the error message specifically complains about a 16bit program (run.pif) not being compatible with the 64bit version of Windows I wonder.... Still, MELABS is indicating that it's supposed to work and obviously it IS working for mackrackit. My typical luck I guess...

Will try a command line compile too.

/Henrik.