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CodeBlocks Setup Guide

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Contents
1 Code::Blocks Wiki
2 Code::Blocks Setup Guide in Windows
2.1 Preparing Code::Blocks
3 Building wxWidgets from the command line
3.1 Downloading the last stable wxWidgets library
3.2 Building your own wxWidgets library
3.3 Copying libraries

Code::Blocks Wiki
Code::Blocks' wiki has a good guide on setting up wxWidgets on Code::Blocks:
http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=WxWindowsQuickRef

Code::Blocks Setup Guide in Windows

This page describes the steps I took in order to get Code::Blocks working with a homemade wxWidgets. I
used the Code::Blocks+MINGW 1.0 bundle and wxWidgets 2.6.
NOTE: This guide is for compiling with MINGW, not Cygwin nor MSYS.

Preparing Code::Blocks
Download Code::Blocks with the MINGW bundle from http://www.codeblocks.org
Install Code::Blocks

Building wxWidgets from the command line

Downloading the last stable wxWidgets library
The last stable wxWidgets distribution can be found at the wxWidgets website
(https://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/). You can choose between an installer and a zip file. You can just get
the zip file because the installer is also a zipped version.
If you use the plain zip version, make sure to unzip using full paths. Otherwise the directories won't be created
correctly.
NOTE: In the rest of these instructions I'll be calling the wxWidgets directory %WXWIN% you have to
change it to your own directory. (e.g. "c:\wxWidgets-x.x")
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Building your own wxWidgets library

Before anything, add the bin directory of MinGW under the CodeBlocks installation directory to
the %PATH% variable. Now it is time to compile wxWidgets, open the command promt and change to the
wxWidgets directory:
cd %WXWIN%\build\msw

Now we are on the right place we are first going to clean up the source:
mingw32-make.exe -f makefile.gcc clean

NOTE: if you still have problems with compiling after cleaning, you may want to remove the directory in the
build\msw directory. (it contains object files...) When everything is clean we can compile wxWidgets:
First we have to configure the build. If your makefile.gcc (in my version on line 7) includes config.gcc, your
command line parameters will be overriden by the config-file. Thus edit the compiler settings in config.gcc to
reflect your choice. The following are recommended: USE_XRC=1 SHARED=1 MONOLITHIC=1
BUILD=release UNICODE=0
Otherwise, you can build wxWidgets from the commandline as follows:
mingw32-make.exe -f makefile.gcc USE_XRC=1 SHARED=1 MONOLITHIC=1 BUILD=release UNICODE=0

Now you can get a cup of coffee, or do something else, because this could take a long time.
NOTE: If you mess up and want to clean, you have to pass the same parameters to make clean.
Example for clean commandline:
mingw32-make.exe -f makefile.gcc clean USE_XRC=1 SHARED=1 MONOLITHIC=1 BUILD=release UNICODE=0

So now everything is compiled for using codeblocks.

Copying libraries
When compilation is finished it is useful to copy the libs to another directory. By doing this you can make
several builds (e.g. debug and release).
So first we create a directory this could be done in %WXWIN%\lib.
Then we go to the directory %WXWIN%\lib\gcc_dll (could called diffrent when you changed the build
options)
Rename the directory %WXWIN%\lib\gcc_dll to the directory of your choice. (For me it
is %WXWIN%\lib\gcc_dllNonUnicode)
NOTE: Make sure everything is removed from the directory %WXWIN%\lib\gcc_dll else you can get trouble
when compiling another version.

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Congratulations! You just finished with the setup of wxWidgets library and you can start developing in
wxWidgets. If any problem occurs, just ask at the Code::Blocks forum (http://forums.codeblocks.org/).
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