Microchip MPLAB XC Compilers

Overview

Proprietary compilers made by Microchip for their lines of microcontrollers (PIC, dsPIC, etc.) They are divided into three categories: XC8, XC16, and XC32. The numbers correspond to the bit width of the CPU line, XC16 for 16-bit for example.

The 16-bit and 32-bit compilers are based on GCC, though crippled with license checks that disable optimizations for non-paid editions. However, due to the open source restrictions, they have to release the full code to the modified version and the crippling logic can be circumvented (completely legally).

Downloads

XC8

TODO

XC16

At the time of writing, v1.70 (released March 26th 2021) was the latest version.

Version	OS	Filename	Size	MD5
v1.70	Linux	xc16-v1.70-full-install-linux64-installer.run	592,752,640 bytes	6153c217487ead4ee10e3316d283c490
v1.70	Windows	xc16-v1.70-full-install-windows64-installer.exe	626,837,832 bytes	bd46cb03f6e9f8ea241b4f88c3e3393b
v1.70	macOS	xc16-v1.70-full-install-osx64-installer.dmg	591,316,745 bytes	09ec0051cf816af75957abb594039833
v1.70	(release notes)	Readme_XC16_v170(1).html	144,650 bytes	aef55da111bb0f530f558e6e45a212f0
v1.61	Linux	xc16-v1.61-full-install-linux64-installer.run	102,607,732 bytes	111ddeacf38f7753e231a5616d5593aa
v1.61	Windows	xc16-v1.61-full-install-windows64-installer.exe	103,529,912 bytes	3a41d064e8e8d29720fb10f505a077c3
v1.61	macOS	xc16-v1.61-full-install-osx64-installer.dmg	102,907,601 bytes	0acfc5a07946329e86e8be943cd0da7a
v1.61	(release notes)	Readme_XC16_161.html	137,301 bytes	4f53a7ce484f44dffe73d4a49c82b85b
v1.60	Linux	xc16-v1.60-full-install-linux64-installer.run	102,416,348 bytes	942afd634d5054de10ef90c715f2b702
v1.60	Windows	xc16-v1.60-full-install-windows64-installer.exe	103,337,720 bytes	684ec3390e013159c836a308b18b742a
v1.60	macOS	xc16-v1.60-full-install-osx64-installer.dmg	102,726,910 bytes	cff63fea9ac33a666ed315f37daa5619
v1.60	(release notes)	Readme_XC16_160.html	136,833 bytes	f20dae5d453dd2bd3b2113d4692749dd
v1.50	Linux	xc16-v1.50-full-install-linux64-installer.run	101,673,790 bytes	83aaf8fe09bfdcc54b1ba7ec88ddde40
v1.50	Windows	xc16-v1.50-full-install-windows64-installer.exe	102,596,552 bytes	d65f3777b43d33b08e3f628a37957498
v1.50	macOS	xc16-v1.50-full-install-osx64-installer.dmg	102,007,213 bytes	74c35f1f6a4a49b0f5ef916aeb7dd05e
v1.50	(release notes)	Readme_XC16_150.html	129,836 bytes	ee14ad9856ac3396d0bfb9f5cdf7a914