if you have a network license and are installing on a server, click on the radio button next to install the network license server. if you are installing the compiler for use on your machine only, click on the radio button next to install compiler. in these versions, you have to download and install them separately into your compiler and they are now called legacy peripheral libraries. mplab is phasing out the pic18f peripheral library which is no longer included in xc8 compilers from version v1.35. the 16×2 lcd screen has 2 rows and 16 columns which means we can write up to 32 character.
#HOW TO USE MPLAB XC8 COMPILER HOW TO#
This post shows how to interface pic16f887 microcontroller with 16×2 lcd screen (with hd44780 controller), the compiler used in this example is microchip mplab xc8 (mplab x ide with mplab xc8 compiler). additionally, we can use it along with xc8, xc16 and xc32 compilers to program pic10f, pic12f, pic16, pic18, pic24, pic32 and dspic series of microcontrollers. we can use this ide to program pic and avr microcontrollers. microchip provides free of cost mplab integrated development environment (ide). Download and install mplab ide and xc8 compiler. 16×2 means it contains 2 rows that can display 16 characters. 16×2 character lcd is a very basic and low cost lcd module which is commonly used in electronic products and projects. In this tutorial we will see how to interface a 16×2 character lcd module with pic 16f877a microcontroller using mplab x ide and mplab xc8 c compiler.