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MPLAB XC-DSC C Compiler User's Guide
MPLAB XC-DSC C Compiler User's Guide
  1. Home
  2. 4 How To's
  3. 4.1 Installing and Activating the Compiler

  • Notice to Development Tools Customers
  • 1 Preface
  • 2 Compiler Overview
  • 3 Compiler and Other Development Tools
  • 4 How To's
    • 4.1 Installing and Activating the Compiler
      • 4.1.1 How Do I Install and Activate My Compiler?
      • 4.1.2 How Can I Tell If the Compiler has Activated Successfully?
      • 4.1.3 Can I Install More Than One Version of the Same Compiler?
    • 4.2 Invoking the Compiler
    • 4.3 Writing Source Code
    • 4.4 Getting My Application to Do What I Want
    • 4.5 Understanding the Compilation Process
    • 4.6 Fixing Code That Does Not Work
  • 5 XC-DSC Toolchain and MPLAB® X IDE
  • 6 Compiler Command-Line Driver
  • 7 Device-Related Features
  • 8 Differences Between MPLAB® XC-DSC and C Standard
  • 9 Supported Data Types and Variables
  • 10 Fixed-Point Arithmetic Support - dsPIC33C/E/F and dsPIC30 Only
  • 11 Memory Allocation and Access
  • 12 Operators and Statements
  • 13 Register Usage
  • 14 Functions
  • 15 Interrupts
  • 16 Main, Runtime Startup and Reset
  • 17 Mixing C and Assembly Code
  • 18 Library Routines
  • 19 Optimizations
  • 20 Preprocessing
  • 21 Linking Programs
  • 22 Implementation-Defined Behavior
  • 23 Embedded Compiler Compatibility Mode
  • 24 Common C Interface
  • 25 Diagnostic Pragmas
  • 26 Diagnostic Messages
  • 27 GNU Free Documentation License
  • 28 Built-in Functions
  • 29 Document Revision History
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4.1 Installing and Activating the Compiler

This section details questions that might arise when installing or activating the compiler.

  • How Do I Install and Activate My Compiler?
  • How Can I Tell If the Compiler has Activated Successfully?
  • Can I Install More Than One Version of the Same Compiler?

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