HI-Tech Software offers a free evaluation version of their PIC C compiler at microchip.hi-tech.com. Go to the HI-Tech web site at microchip.hi-tech.com to download the Lite (Freeware) version of the PIC C Compiler. During the installation process an option to download the Integrated Development Environment HI-TIDE will be given. Install this also.

Note that as of this writing the compiler file is HCPICP-pro-9.60PL3.exe and the HI-TIDE version is 3.15. Yours might be different.

After installation, launch HI-TIDE either automatically when the installation procedure exits or clicking on the icon on your desktop.

** SPECIAL NOTE **

In the directory C:\Program Files\HI-TECH Software\PICC\PRO\9.60\lib is a file named doprnt.c that needs a change in order to work correctly when using the sprintf() library function later in the projects. Edit this file and add comments to line 741 as shown below.

//cp = va_arg(ap, const char *);