CCS Compiler on Windows ARM

[asmallri]

I read the great thread on Visual Studio Code and the CCS Compiler https://www.ccsinfo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=59296&start=15&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

But naturally once you see something like that, you want more :-)

After several decades working on Window's I have decided to move to the Apple platform, specifically the M4 mini family. What has been holding back for so long is that I am hooked on the CCS compilers for developing PIC24/dsPIC33 projects using the PCD compiler. I think these compilers are awesome.

However, despite having the PCWHD IDE suite, I work almost exclusively in the Microchip MPLAB-X IDE for anything related to Microchip microcontrollers. For other micros, I work with Video Studio Code.

For the Apple family of M series processors, Microchip support their IDE both natively on MacOS and also on Window's for ARM platform. However the CCS compilers do not currently support either of these platforms.

Ideally, as I only need the command line version of these compilers, I would like a mechanism that would allow me to wrap a command line compiler such that it, and only it, needs to be dealt with by Apple's Rosetta translation layer.

I thought this was a dead end because it would also require the CCS Plugin for the Microchip IDE. However, in the example for the work done with the integration of the CCS command line compiler with VS code, I can live without the Microchip IDE for the compilation part if I could use VS Code for that. I would still need to use Microchip's IPE to read and write the hex files to the PIC but that is ok.

So, about this wrapper? has anyone come across a mechanism that might work for this?
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[Ttelmah]

You can run the Linux version of the CCS compiler on the Mac using
Homebrew. However I just use a Windows VM.