<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">For the 8-bitters there is already AVR-GCC, and for the ARM 32-bitters there's ARM-GCC.  It's only really the 16-bit dsPICs that don't have a clean GCC toolchain.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 9 Jul 2026 at 09:30, Adam (synthDIY) <<a href="mailto:synthdiy@adambaby.com">synthdiy@adambaby.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Free.. as in beer.<br>
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> On 9 Jul 2026, at 18:18, cheater cheater via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Free as in freedom?<br>
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> On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 10:17 AM Neil Johnson via Synth-diy<br>
> <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Hi all,<br>
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>> I see Microchip has finally made all of their compilers completely free:<br>
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>> <a href="https://www.microchip.com/en-us/tools-resources/develop/mplab-xc-compilers" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.microchip.com/en-us/tools-resources/develop/mplab-xc-compilers</a><br>
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>> Hopefully a good sign, rather than a bad one....<br>
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>> Neil<br>
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