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richardpd:
I started C programming several months ago on my new Win8 PC and started by installing Cygwin and using Geany4Windows editor (which is good & works well). Since then I have looked at several courses & YouTube C programming playlists that advise using CodeBlocks for C/C++ programming and I wanted to install CodeBlocks and try this myself but I cannot get CodeBlocks to install properly.

I have tried using all 3 Windows binaries,hoping that one would work,but they all fail with the same problem.
First a message box repeatedly appears asking to put a disc in the drive and  when this finally disappears another message box appears stating libxxx.dll is missing and finally a further message box appears saying there is some error between versions!?

It is all a bit confusing for me. I'm not sure whether I need the CodeBlocks installer with a compiler or without one so I can just add the path to the compiler exe for it to work.

I have all these errors as screenshot images (I have x4 in all but can only attach x2! Also file size/quality problems with these!) and I would be grateful for help & assistance to get CodeBlocks installed and working correctly,many thanks.

ollydbg:
I can NOT see your images clearly, so please upload your images to some site like: http://imageshack.us/, and share the link here, thanks.

richardpd:
Hi-thanks for the reply..I have uploaded images to my blog. See http://richard-dickinson.com/codeblocks/

I hope this is clearer now & I look forward to help,thanks

stahta01:
Looks like one of two things are likely wrong.

1. CB Toolchain is NOT configured right. Note: Clicking on "yes" "update settings" might fix the issue.
First link to Wiki http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=Installing_a_supported_compiler#Compiler-neutral_setup_steps
Second link to past forum post http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,18075.0.html
Note: The forum post section "Third way to manually setup MinGW GCC" is the most likely way to fix the problem if its a CB toolchain config issue.

2. MinGW GCC Installation is bad.

Tim S.

richardpd:
Hi stahta01, thanks for your reply.

I tried playing around with the compiler settings and using the path to my cyqwin c compiler but still had the same annoying error box saying "Insert disk".

I then saw I had 2 other MinGW directories on my C drive. One was C:\MinGW-4.7.1 which I remember installed when I installed CodeLite editor to try that but I also had C:\MinGW and I am not sure where that came from (possibly NetBeans with C++?).

So I then uninstalled CodeBlocks and deleted the C:\MinGW folder (this may cause me a problem later with NetBeans or whatever the program that installed C:\MinGW was!). Next I reinstalled CodeBlocks(using codeblocks setup.exe only). CodeBlocks now works and from the settings I can see it has autodetected & uses C:\MinGW-4.7.1. and no longer gives the annoying "Insert disk" error box.

It is not that easy trying different code editors/IDE's on Windows when program conflicts & path issues can cause strange errors! Anyway I hope I can now try out CodeBlocks for C programming..time will tell! Best wishes :-)

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