An application to program Microchip PIC microcontrollers using the ICD3 programmer over the network.
The executable is stored in the Release/ folder. Compiled for Windows 7, 32bit.

Start RemoteProgrammer and use netcat (or another socket client) to push a hex file into your controller:

cat program.hex | nc 192.168.0.2 3000

• There is currently no way to customize the server port at runtime. You have to change it in the sources and recompile the programm.

• MPLAB IDE (with ICD3 support)

• wxWidgets (>= 2.8.12)

The following "howto" describes the development setup which was used for building RemoteProgrammer.

• A windows environment (tested with Windows 7 - 32 and 64 bit inside VirtualBox, Windows XP may also work, haven't tried it yet)
• Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers (tested with Indigo 3.7.2)
• MinGW (tested with mingw-get-inst-20120426.exe)
• MSYS (the MinGW installer will install it)
• wxWidgets source (tested with wxAll 2.8.12)

• Download Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers (see link above)
• Extract the archive to some location
• Eclipse requires Java to be installed on your computer, but this is mostly the case

• Download the MinGW Installer (see link above) and run it
• Select "Download latest repository catalogues" if you get asked whether you want to use the pre-packaged or the latest catalogues
• Install to C:\MinGW
• On components selection step, you should at least choose
• C Compiler
• C++ Compiler
• MSYS Basic System
• MinGW Developer Toolkit
• After you hit install, the installer takes a few minutes to download and install the libraries and tools

• Download the wxWidgets source (see link above)
• Extract the archive to C:\MinGW (so that it becomes C:\MinGW\wxWidgets-2.8.12)
• Open the MinGW Shell (Start Menu - MinGW - MinGW Shell)
• Type cd /mingw/wxWidgets-2.8.12
• Type ./configure --prefix=/mingw --disable-shared
• Type make && make install
• These last two commands may take upwards of ten minutes each to execute
• Once completed, you should be ready to compile wxWidgets C++ projects

• Start Eclipse by executing eclipse.exe
• If this is the first run, you will get a "Welcome screen". Click the close button (the little "x") in the tab bar to close it
• Create a new C++ Project
• Select File - New - C++ Project
• Choose a Project name (e.g. "sampleMinimal")
• Choose Executable/Empty Project as Project type
• Choose MinGW GCC as Toolchain
• Click Finish
• You will now see the project in the Project Explorer on the left
• Right click the project name, select New - Source Folder
• Type "src" as Folder name
• Click Finish
• Right click the "src" folder, select New - Source File
• Type "minimal.cpp" as Source File
• Select File - Open File..
• Browse to C:\MinGW\wxWidgets-2.8.12\samples\minimal
• Select minimal.cpp
• Copy the contents of the whole file ("Edit - Select All", "Edit - Copy")
• Close the file (File - Close)
• Paste the code into your minimal.cpp ("Edit - Select All", "Edit - Paste")
• Save the file (File - Save)

• Open Project Properties (Project - Properties)
• Select and expand C/C++ Build in the list on the left
• Choose All configurations as Configuration
• Select C/C++ Build - Settings
• Open the Tool Settings tab
• Select GCC C++ Compiler - Miscellaneous
• Run the command wx-config --cxxflags --static in a MinGW Shell
• Prepend the output to Other flags, so they should look like -I/mingw/lib/wx/include/msw-ansi-release-static-2.8 -I/mingw/include/wx-2.8 -D__WXMSW__ -mthreads -c -fmessage-length=0
• Select MinGW C++ Linker
• In the Command line pattern, move the ${FLAGS} entry from front to back so it should look like ${COMMAND} ${OUTPUT_FLAG} ${OUTPUT_PREFIX}${OUTPUT} ${INPUTS} ${FLAGS}
• Select MinGW C++ Linker - Miscellaneous
• Run the command wx-config --libs --static in a MinGW Shell
• Append the output to Linker flags
• Prepend "-static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc" to Linker flags
• The Linker flags now should look like -static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc -L/mingw/lib -mthreads -Wl,--subsystem,windows -mwindows /mingw/lib/libwx_msw_richtext-2.8.a /mingw/lib/libwx_msw_aui-2.8.a /mingw/lib/libwx_msw_xrc-2.8.a /mingw/lib/libwx_msw_qa-2.8.a /mingw/lib/libwx_msw_html-2.8.a /mingw/lib/libwx_msw_adv-2.8.a /mingw/lib/libwx_msw_core-2.8.a /mingw/lib/libwx_base_xml-2.8.a /mingw/lib/libwx_base_net-2.8.a /mingw/lib/libwx_base-2.8.a -lwxregex-2.8 -lwxexpat-2.8 -lwxtiff-2.8 -lwxjpeg-2.8 -lwxpng-2.8 -lwxzlib-2.8 -lrpcrt4 -loleaut32 -lole32 -luuid -lwinspool -lwinmm -lshell32 -lcomctl32 -lcomdlg32 -lctl3d32 -ladvapi32 -lwsock32 -lgdi32
• Click Apply
• Click OK
• Eclipse should now be able to compile the program, select Run - Run and you should see the application running. If not, check if you made a mistake in a previous step.

Follow these steps to fix the "Unresolved inclusion" warnings and get auto-completion running

• Open Project Properties (Project - Properties)
• Expand C/C++ General in the list on the left
• Select Indexer
• Tick Enable project specific settings
• Tick Index unused headers as C++ files
• Click Apply
• Select Paths and Symbols on the left
• Choose All configurations as Configuration
• In the Includes tab, select GNU C++ as Language
• Click Add... on the right
• Click File system... and select C:\MinGW\include\wx-2.8
• Click OK
• Click Add... on the right
• Click File system... and select C:\MinGW\lib\wx\include\msw-ansi-release-static-2.8
• Click OK
• Click Apply
• If dialog opens where you get asked whether you wish to rebuld the index, choose Yes
• Click OK

• Open Project properties
• Select C/C++ Build - Settings
• Select the Build Steps tab
• Select Release as Configuration
• Add strip <File>.exe as Post-build command
• In case of RemoteProgrammer, this strips the executable down from 4,1MB to 2,5MB (64% smaller)

• See src/res/README.md

• wiki.wxwidgets.org

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.