I tried to compile C::B on winXP (out of curiosity, the nightly’s work fine for me).
Until now I did this:
I downloaded wxWidgets (guided by the wiki "Compiling wxWidgets 2.8.6 to develop Code::Blocks (MSW)")
I downloaded minGW 3.4.5 (guided by the wiki "MinGW installation")
I compiled wxWidgets
I tested this in C::B by making a wxWidgets “hallo world”. It compiles and runs fine.
I downloaded and installed Tortoise SVN (guided by the last chapter in the manual)
I downloaded all the C::B source files whith SVN
Now I have some questions:
1. The manual tells me I need a zip.exe command line and promises a link to a download site. But the link is not there. I tried to find a zip.exe command line with Google, and got many hits, but did not succeed to download anything. 7 zip has a commandline version, but it is called 7za.exe
Can i use that? If not, where can I download zip.exe?
2. The manual tells me I must run update_revision.bat
I cannot find that amongst the files I have got. There is a update_revision.sh, but I understand that is for Linux.
How do I get update_revision.bat?
3. Coming from DevCpp I had minGW 3.4.2 in my DevCpp folder when I first downloaded C::B, it was promptly found, and until now I happily used it with C::B.
I tried to find out what to do to make C::B use the new version. There is a wiki "Installing a supported compiler" stating:
"Settings/Configure plugins/Compiler", select the compiler you installed, switch to the "Programs" page and press "Auto-detect". If you get a message saying that the compiler was auto-detected, congratulations! If not, then press the button with the three dots next to the "Auto-detect" button and select the installation directory of your compiler manually.
But this is probably outdated, I can’t find this in C::B.
How must I do this?
wobien
edit: I just found out how to solve my question 3: "Settings->Compiler and Debugger->Global compiler settings->Toolchain executables" in stead of "Settings/Configure plugins/Compiler". "switch to the "Programs" page" can be left out.
Can I change the wiki?
edit 2: In wiki "Nightly Cookbook" is the same information I found in the manual, last chapter. But this time with the link to the download page for zip.exe.
that solves my question 1.