[SOLVED] Warning: The hex file has the debug bit set....

[zapados]

When doing a "production" build in MPLAB X (Production --> Clean and Build Project), I'm getting this warning:

Warning: The hex file has the debug bit set. The debug bit has been cleared during load to memory. The original hex file has not been modified.

The debug bit should not be set!

Here are my environment & build details:
MPLAB X v6.20
CCS C Compiler v5.119
Working with a PIC18F2520

If I load the "debug bit set" hex into MPLAB IPE, then export it from MPLAB IPE, and diff. against the one which was loaded in, it does show differences so I think the warning is legit.

Any help is appreciated! Thank you. Cheers!

[jaka]

Have you tried adding the following line:
#fuses NODEBUG
(or just add NODEBUG to your existing #fuses line)

[zapados]

This is what I have going on for the DEBUG fuses stuff:

[Ttelmah]

Suggests you may have debug turned on in the project configuration.
Production
Project Configuration
Customise
Building
Tick the box 'use 'clean' target from makefile'

Problem is that if the make has got debug in it as the default, It'll build
with debug whatever you do.

This takes you back to the clean setup, so the debug should then be removed.

[zapados]

@Ttelmah, interesting, I did NOT have that set. Unfortunately, setting it still produces the warning.

[Ttelmah]

OK.
Thing is the debug fuse is overridden by the build configuration.
Now that should be set by the build line being sent to the compiler,
having +ICD when you build for debug, but not when you build
for production. Check the command line being generated in the
settings, and see if that has been explicitly added.
The setup between MPPLAB and CCS is at times very annoying.

In the Properties window, select 'Building', and in both the right
hand windows, scroll to the bottom and check there is the line:

IsDebug "true" for a Debug run, "false" otherwise

If one of these has got deleted it could give your behaviour.

Then in the left window select the 'Compiler Options' tab for the
CCS C Compiler. Bottom right window, select 'Generated Command Line'.
This should be:

+F =9 +EA +DF +LN +T +A +M +J +Z -P

The =9 will change if you have altered the optimisation, but if anything
else is different, post what you are getting, or hit the top right 'Reset'
button to put these settings back to default.

I worry about your #if code posted. Get rid of it!......
Just REM it out. Rules out one thing. It perhaps suggests that you have a
line in the setup to explicitly define ICD_DEBUG, and that this is what is
overriding the MPLAB settings.

I always just use _DEBUG to test for debugging being enabled, and it
is this that the IsDebug setting generates in the settings.

[zapados]

[zapados]

Thank you for all your help everyone! This issue is now resolved. Shoutout to the CCS support!

The problem was, the code contained this line:

[Ttelmah]

I think aargh may apply here.....

You were explicitly selecting ICD mode.

[zapados]