'mphidflash' is a simple command-line tool for communicating with Microchips USB HID-Bootloader and downloading new firmware. mphidflash supports Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard and later), and Windows.
The 'mphidflash' project is hosted on http://code.google.com/p/mphidflash/
For Linux, you'll need the 'libhid' development library (and associated dependencies) installed, which can be handled by most package managers or from the command line:
sudo apt-get install libhid-dev
Assuming you're reading this as the README.txt alongside the source code, to compile mphidflash for a 32 or 64 bit system, in the Terminal window type:
make mphidflash32
or
make mphidflash64
Then install with the command:
sudo make install32
or
sudo make install64
This will copy the appropriate executable to /usr/local/bin/mphidflash so you don't need to specify a complete path to the program each time.
To build mphidflash for Mac, you'll need to have Xcode (Apple's developer tools) already installed. The IDE portion is not used here, just the command line interface.
Assuming you're reading this as the README.txt alongside the source code, to compile mphidflash for a 32 or 64 bit system, in the Terminal window type:
make mphidflash32
or
make mphidflash64
Then install with the command:
sudo make install32
or
sudo make install64
This will copy the appropriate executable to /usr/local/bin/mphidflash so you don't need to specify a complete path to the program each time.
To build mphidflash for Windows, you can use mingw32 (cross) compiler. For cross compiling on Linux, you'll need the 'mingw32' toolchain (and associated dependencies) installed, which can be handled by most package mangager or from the command line:
sudo apt-get install mingw32
Assuming you're reading this as the README.txt alongside the source code, to compile mphidflash, in the Terminal window type:
make -f Makefile.win
This will create a .exe in the binaries sub-directory, which can be called from the Windows commmand line - e.g. 'mphidflash-1.6-win-32.exe'. You should copy this file somewhere on your executable path and rename it to 'mphidflash.exe'.
To upload a new program to your PIC, it must be connected to your computer and set into bootloader mode. mphidflash can then be used with the following options:
-help Display help screen (alternately: -?)
-write
Example: To upload the program test.hex to the PIC and to reset the PIC thereafter the following command line can be used:
mphidflash -write test.hex -reset