Hi,
I spent some time hacking on a PIC assembler implementation in pure
python. You can find my efforts here:
https://code.launchpad.net/spasmI'd really like opinions from you guys. You did a terrific job with
gpasm which helped me a lot. But I needed complete
macro support and #defines with arguments.
Following are the feature list and how to install it as python newbie.
Feature list:
- Support for all chips that gpasm supports
- Support for #defines with arguments
- Full support of Macro definitions
- Full support of #v(val) substitutions
No implemented:
- Support for EEPROM device programming. EEPROM8s might work,
EEPROMS16 quite
surely not
- Support for LIST file generation
- Support for relocatable output
- 18* support is very sparse, since there weren't many test cases in
the testsuite of microchip. Things like
config A=1 are not supported but could easily be added.
How to install:
- have python installed
- get the PLY library (under mac os/linux try $ ./easy_install ply),
python-ply package in debian/ubuntu; You need a recent version (>3.0)
- get bzr (versioning tool like svn; also try $ ./easy_install bzr),
package bzr in debian/ubuntu.
- get spasm: $ bzr get lp:spasm
- $ cd spasm
- $ python setup.py build (this might take a while)
- $./spasm.py <your assembler file>
I won't have time to continue development in the nearer future,
therefore I release it as is into the public with the hope someone
will continue on it. I will obviously provide any help I can.
Cheers,
Holger
