Setting up the project folder structure for the application

#pragma config

Create a folder somewhere close to the root of whatever drive you select. For my projects, I created a subfolder of one of my Linux system drives called "mcu". You can pick any drive in Windows as well, but again, keep it close to the root, I.E. "C:\mcu". The reason for this is that MPLAB use to and may still have a problem with long path names. Keeping your project folder short and sweet and close to the root helps to keep that path name small. To further help that process, keep your individual project folder names small as well. For this project, I advise creating the "mcu" folder, then create a sub-folder in "mcu" called "blink_led". When completed you should have a project folder path like "C:\mcu\blink_test\".