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Another call for an RC3 installer

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HugoRune:
Finally I trawled through the forum and found a recent installer that someone has produced.
http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php?topic=3225.msg34340#msg34340

It works too (at least for me). And that's all I wanted. Thank you to bigbug for producing it. The real shame of this is that I had to spend a lot of time and frustration before I found it.

And I think I did carefully read the instructions for getting a nightly build to work. In at least one place they were wrong (linked to wxmsw26_gcc_cb.dll instead of wxmsw26u_gcc_cb.dll, even on the latest nightly build announcement). It is a long intricate process to get going for the first time, especially if you have never used the software before. I have no doubt it is easier to update nightly builds when you have got the framework in place, but to do it from scratch is not easy.

I apologise again if I appeared to be rude, but I found the whole experience to be very frustrating. This is probably the same experience that a lot of potential new users must have (especially the wrong dll issue). How many people are giving up, or assuming that the project is dead? The really sad thing is that the work for an installer has been done, but this information is buried at the end of a thread in the forum.

I am sorry if you or anyone else felt insulted by my comments. I appreciate the work you are doing and now I appear to be up and running I am very impressed. However I think you are really doing yourselves a major disservice by not making a more recent installer available on the download page. It really does look like the project is not being actively developed.

thomas:
As for the nightly build, please download:
1. the program archive
2. the wxWidgets DLL
3. the mingwm10whateverititscalled DLL

Unpack all into the same location.

As for MinGW with GDB:
Go to our WiKi, and type "mingw" into the search box. You'll get to a page that lists every packaged that you could possibly need for a complete manual install.
Download all from "base system", plus any other languages you want, plus GDB. Put everything into one folder (except for GDB, which is an installer exe), select all, right-click, and select "unzip here".
Then run the GDB installer and delete all files that you downloaded.

Takes about 5 minutes alltogether (unless you have an extremely slow internet connection).

Biplab:

--- Quote from: HugoRune on November 25, 2006, 11:34:24 am ---Thanks for pointing me to the dll

However, this is not the dll that is indicated in the wiki installation notes. The 24th november nightly build announcement also links to the wrong one!

Is this not an indication that an installer is needed?

--- End quote ---

Read the wiki carefully. All the instructions are perfect.

Also this is the dll you need to run the nightly builds. I just rechecked and all the links are fine. I don't know whether the Code::Blocks developers are maintaining any other secret version of this dll.

To sum up either you didn't read the instructions carefully or you don't know how to read them. Please don't vent your anger blindly without doing the best from your part.

I am also sorry if it seems harsh to you, but I can't stop writing this.

HugoRune:
OK I re-read the wiki and I apologise. I don't know how I got the wrong dll, but somehow I did.

However, I still maintain that the install process is far more complex than it needs to be. It is obvious that users are crying out for a new interim release, and with good reason. Looking at the download web page on the main codeblocks site, the project appears to be dead. It doesn't look good that the last release candidate was over a year ago. You and I know that a lot has happened since RC2, but that's not how it appears.

Someone has already done an installer and it seems to do the job. Why not slap an RC3 label on that and make it an official download? It would be better than the current situation from the point of view of attracting new users. Anyway, I have got something working now (thanks to the installer from bigbug, and I have said my piece so I will let the matter drop. Thanks to all of you for responding (even if you disagree with me).

killerbot:
1) what do you man the link on the nightly announcements is wrong  ??

--- Quote ---A link to the unicode windows wxWidget dll for Code::Blocks : http://prdownload.berlios.de/codeblocks/wxmsw26u_gcc_cb_wx2.6.3p2.7z

For those who might need this one (when no MingW installed on your system) : the mingw10m.dll : http://prdownload.berlios.de/codeblocks/mingwm10.7z

For support of ansi builds, a link to the ansi windows wxWidget dll for Code::Blocks : http://prdownload.berlios.de/codeblocks/wxmsw26_gcc_cb_wx2.6.3p2.7z

--- End quote ---

mark the words "unicode" and "ansi" ....

2) note the sticky posts at "http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php?board=20.0"
especially  "http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php?topic=3232.0"
seems to my the guidelines are very nearby the nightlies .

However : ideas to improve are always welcome

3) Why no installer : we create CB; not MinGW, plus we don't want to put a high download on people therefor, there's a very small zip file. What's the use of every night having people to download mingw.dll and wx dll ....
I think it's a sound choice we made.

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