MCSP, PBP260, Win7 - is it impossible?

[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.

[Darrel Taylor]

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...

It's a long shot, I admit.
But since it can be turned on and off easily, I thought it would be worth a try.

I've actually been searching (almost continuously) for the last 3 days for some kind of answer to that very question.

Win7-64 seems to be rather fickle.
Sometimes everything works fine. Other times something is different and people just can't get it working.

The UAC was the best sounding answer I found online. But I have no way to test it.

Hope it helps,

[HenrikOlsson]

Hi,
Tried the UAC thing - didn't make any difference. Tried a comand line compile:

C:\PIC\PBP\PBPW -ampasmwin test.pbp

but then it said it couldn't find MPASM. Looked at the manual which said to read the MPLAB.txt file on the disk but there's no such file on my v2.60 CD as far as I can see.

Did a little searching on how to "set the path" and added the path to the MPASM Suite directory but still no luck - can't find MPASM.... I actually copy-pasted the path from explorer to the path text field so it should be correct - or shouldn't it?

I e-mailed Mecanique this morning but haven't got any response, only been a couple of hours though...but based on previous issues I don't really expect any help from them :-(

Sorry if I sound frustrated, it's because I am....

/Henrik.
(Going back to the tiny netbook....)

[ScaleRobotics]

Do you need to reinstall MPASM? You can download it off the microchip website if need be. One way to test your mpasm installation is to run MPASMWIN.exe (if you can find it). It should be able to assemble some *.asm files. Sorry, I don't have 7, just love (cough ... cough...) my Vista too much!

[mackrackit]

Can you try an older version of PBP and MPASM?

Like I said, I am still using PBP 2.5 and the MPASM that shipped with it.

I have not upgraded to PBP2.6 yet because of the known bugs, maybe this is another one??

[HenrikOlsson]

Hi guys,
Again, I appologise for the frustration.... I found the MPLAB.txt mentioned in the manual - not on the disc but in the PBP directory - no info about setting the path variable there though. However, I found this page on the MELABS site where it says to restart the system after changing the path... I didn't do that before....Now I have and I AM able to compile from the command line which ineed is a step in the right direction. Still no go with MCSP though.

Perhaps I need to switch to MPLAB as the IDE. I really do (did) like the seamless workflow that MCSP offers though, I'd be prepared to pay for it again if they made it work properly on newer computers/OS's

/Henrik.

[Darrel Taylor]

Henrik,

I just got some feedback from Charles(meLabs) that may help.

Apparently, when installing from an older MCSP CD, you have to switch to compatibility mode to get the online-update to work, which you already found out.

But once you get it updated to 3.0.0.5 then it has the version that was written for Vista, and compatibility mode is not needed anymore, and will give the .pif error message.

Turning compatibility off again should make MCS work with Win7-64.

HTH,