xc8 and PIC-GSM?

[freedomlives]

Any progress made porting the example projects to xc8?

I use Linux, so I was excited to find that MPLABX runs natively.  It has been several years since I last did any micro-controller projects, and back then I was using MPLAB8 in a windows environment.  So its dissapointing now that the examples to start with the PIC-GSM don't seem to work unless using the C18 compiler, which isn't anyway available for Linux.