MSPGCC is free, ICC from imagecraft, Crossworks from Rowley Associates
and Quadravox are all out there and have good reputations. IAR is
effectively free from Ti, but limited to 4k code. The MSP430 group in
yahoo groups has plenty of discussion of these. All three mentioned have
free trial offers, mostly time limited with unrestricted code. prices
vary. last time I looked ICC was the cheapest, but seemed to be at a
slightly earlier stage of development than the others, but they all have
different things going for them. Of course there is always the megabucks
IAR full version.

Al


David Milne wrote:

onestone wrote:
Thanks very much for the info everyone.

I'll try MSPGCC first.

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Regards
David Milne

David Milne wrote:


It's still worth getting the IAR freebie if you are using widows, as
their JTAG debugger works, while the GNU one is flaky and no one is
interested in improving it.

There are also a few issues with MSPGCC and floating point (another
minority interest that's unlikely to improve short term). But other than
that, I've used it for a few serious projects and it's just fine.

Paul Burke