Hope I'm not trying your patience too much, I appreciate your help. I think I had internet problems yesterday, Today I had a raft of emails from my bank, going back to 17th Nov, and a registration code for git hub, that expired yesterday.
Anyway, I've reinstalled msys2, (and updated it) and have managed everything up to and including fig 3.1.
I've now confused myself with choices and decisions. The basic requirement is that I want to use codeblocks and a gui design method of generating windows forms, etc., for which I need wxwidgets
I've got to where I've installed the mingw packages, at para 3.3 . Has that built wx widgets, or do I then carry on through to para 3.6.8 and then install codeblocks etc, and do all of section 4, or once wx widgets is built in section 3, I can use that build by just installing code blocks? I need baby steps, but in the right order.