OK so after not getting anyware with windows 10 I thought id start again on a windows 7 machine.
So I have just freshly installed windows 7 on a machine, installed firewing, plugged in the firewing 32 board and then installed the driver supplied by using the have disk method.
all ok at this point the board had some previous code in it and displays to a terminal just fine.
I then tried to compile without modification the progarduino.bas from the tft user libs location.
on firewing 8 and firewing 16 it compiles fine. but when selecting firewing32 I get an error.
"one ore more errors have been reported during linking, build sourcefile in mplab to identify cause (progArduino.c)
so I thought it best to stop at this point and ask for help. last time i went on to install xc tool suite but that may have been the wrong thing to do.
any help would be great
Richard