Hi!
Have You noticed that Microchip is using mingw, the free compiler used in Bloodshed Dev-c++,among others.
In it's newly released C32 they call it pic-as, pic-gcc, pic-c++ a.s.o., At least they provide the free source code. Use Bison if You want to give it a try(can handle more than 100.000 lines of code). They probably just parsed the specific PIC commands and headers. I frequently use Bloodshed(one of the best C/C++ free compilers around, almost standard), NASM, FreeBSD(not Linux) a.o.
You can construct Yr. own OS just with freeware incl. Bochs virtual machine( check
www.osdever.com). I admit it could be fun to crack commercial software, but only as a hobby(I,m not really good at it!).
Free software rocks!
