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Building Codeblocks 25.03 using the Self-Hosting method

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charles5577:
I recently bought a new computer and decided to reinstall the lastest versions of wxWidgets and Codeblocks. I had a link error stating that "exchndl.dll" was missing. It was obvious that I to rename the existing "exchndl.dll" to "exchndl.dll.dll". I did this and the build went fine and I updated. After building the ContribPlugins I did the update again. Copied the output file to a new directory and ran Codeblocks. It was missing "exchndl.dll". I then renamed "exchndl.dll.dll" to "exchndl.dll". Codeblocks ran fine.

While all of this worked it might be better to fix ths build procedure.

I have been using wxWidgets and Codeblocks for years. The combination is a good as any commercial IDE that I have used.

Keep up the good work!

Miguel Gimenez:
The linker error would be helpful.

I use the self hosting method almost exclusively and never found this problem, even for clean compilations.

stahta01:
From CodeBlocks_wx32_64.cbp


--- Code: ---<Add library="exchndl.dll" />
--- End code ---

I can see the above line causing problems like the OP for some toolchains.

Tim S.

charles5577:
I used CodeBlocks_wx32_64.cbp with the last version of TDM-GCC. The link error is:

C:/msys64/TDM-GCC/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/10.3.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lexchndl.dll
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

exchndl.dll does exist.

I changed the line in the project file to <Add library="exchndl" and got the same error. Changing the file extension of exchndl.dll also does not help.

Anyway, my original work around seems to work but it would be nice to find a "clean" solution.

stahta01:
Your compiler likely wants "libexchndl.dll.a" file to be copied along with the "exchndl.dll" file.

Tim S.

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