I´ve been searching the web for months now, but either I´m blind, or there is no info about it.
I found tons of topics asking, how to compile 64bit applications on a 32bit OS or the other way around.
I found tons of topics dealing with compiling 64bit in Linux.
Also there are tons of topics asking about the 64bit version of MinGW, where the answers all require a university degree in informatics before one could understand them.
A search for "Code Blocks 64 bit" in Google finds the Wiki page, where they explain how to make C::B work to compile 64bit with VC++2005, but not a word about MinGW.
I understand that most programmers will have enough knowledge and prefer to install IDE and compiler separate, but beginners like me apreciate the all in one installation as C::B offers it in the download section.
I´ve already had a hard time installing a nighly build over the basic installation to make it work in Vista 32bit.
I´m not really developping anything, I´m just learning by doing and more out of curiosity than need, but now I have Windows7 64bit and obviously I would like to have an easy all in one installation package for the IDE/compiler I´m familiar with, which is C::B/MinGW/GCC++.
It might be a bold request, but you might say, I want to keep everything as it was in 32bit, with the only difference that I can then compile 64bit applications within Windows7 64bit.
One where a click on "Create a new project" will automatically produce the code needed to create an empty example window, which will compile as it is, only makes it a 64bit example window.
Unfortunately there is no such thing, not even a website explaining how to set it up, or at least none that a beginner like me could understand.
Could anyone explain how to do this, in words a dummy like me can understand, or does anyone know a website explaining it?