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MPLAB® XC32 C/C++ Compiler User's Guide for PIC32C/SAM MCUs
MPLAB® XC32 C/C++ Compiler User's Guide for PIC32C/SAM MCUs
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  2. 3 How To's
  3. 3.2 Invoking the Compiler
  4. 3.2.1 How Do I Compile from Within a Microchip IDE?
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  • Notice to Development Tools Customers
  • 1 Preface
  • 2 Compiler Overview
  • 3 How To's
    • 3.1 Installing the Compiler
    • 3.2 Invoking the Compiler
      • 3.2.1 How Do I Compile from Within a Microchip IDE?
      • 3.2.2 How Do I Compile on the Command-line?
      • 3.2.3 How Do I Compile Using a Make Utility?
      • 3.2.4 How Can I Select Which Compiler I Want to Build With?
      • 3.2.5 How Do I Build Libraries?
      • 3.2.6 How Do I Know What Compiler Options Are Available and What They Do?
      • 3.2.7 How Do I Know What the Build Options in Microchip IDEs Do?
      • 3.2.8 What is Different About an MPLAB X IDE Debug Build?
    • 3.3 Writing Source Code
    • 3.4 Getting My Application To Do What I Want
    • 3.5 Understanding the Compilation Process
    • 3.6 Fixing Code That Does Not Work
  • 4 IDE Integration
  • 5 MPLAB X IDE and VS Code Option Equivalents
  • 6 Command-line Driver
  • 7 C Standard Issues
  • 8 Device-Related Features
  • 9 Supported Data Types and Variables
  • 10 Memory Allocation and Access
  • 11 Chip-Level Security and Arm® TrustZone® Technology
  • 12 Floating-point Support
  • 13 Fixed-Point Arithmetic Support
  • 14 Operators and Statements
  • 15 Register Usage
  • 16 Stack
  • 17 Functions
  • 18 Interrupts
  • 19 Main, Runtime Start-up and Reset
  • 20 Libraries
  • 21 Mixing C/C++ and Assembly Language
  • 22 Optimizations
  • 23 Preprocessing
  • 24 Linking Programs
  • 25 Implementation-Defined Behavior
  • 26 C++ Implementation-Defined Behavior
  • 27 Built-in Functions
  • 28 Document Revision History
  • Microchip Information

3.2.1 How Do I Compile from Within a Microchip IDE?

See the MPLAB® X IDE User’s Guide for detailed information on how to create and configure an MPLAB X IDE project. For assistance with the MPLAB extensions for VS Code, see developerhelp.microchip.com/xwiki/bin/view/software-tools/ides/extensions/.

For information on compiler options within the IDE, see IDE Integration.

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