The other forum seems to be broken as it will not let me respond to the thread I had going there.
I got X and 8CX up and running but to say it is a new learning experience is the understatement of the year.
After spending most of the day on it, I managed to get a simple program into the editor but never got close to getting it to build. I tried following the Goo tutorial and the Get Started thing from MC and got nowhere. It is the most unfriendly piece of software I have ever seen. They seem to have reinvented the wheel just to make me miserable.
Unless someone can point to a step by step start up that works for beginners, I am going back to MicroeC.
Having said all that....
Ian said:
"Recent versions of MPLAB 8 coexist well with MPLAB X and the XC8 compiler works well under MPLAB 8. MPLAB X is big, slow and a whole new learning curve. You may do well to have both installed and use whichever is easiest for a particular task."
Do I understand that I don't need X to run XC8? Why was I told to install X if it will run in 8?
Jack