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wxWidgets dependency pushed me away to Eclipse

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anerbenartzi:
Hi.  This may be a bit of flame-bait, but I think it's important for the community to hear it:
I am a long-time Windows/VS and Linux/Emacs developer.  I decided to find a cross-platform IDE, and narrowed it down to Codeblocks and eclipse.

I decided to go with codeblocks, and downloaded it, but got stuck on the wxwidgets build.  I am on CentOS, so I can't use a binary.
So now I'm going to try out Eclipse and see if that is downloadable/runnable more easily.  In the Linux community, it is believed to be OK to give people non-working downloads that require others (which may require others (etc.)).  This spends the excitement and good faith of a new potential adopter before he/she ever even uses the package.

Please consider more binaries or more universal scripts that will allow people to use codeblocks with a single download.

killerbot:
HI, though I have no first reaction at hand, well maybe : that building of wx is not that difficult ;-) , I would like to thank you for this feedback. You have a valid point, dependencies on linux can be a hassle. I still consider myself a linux newbie, though I can solve several issues by myself by now. Otherwise I still run into linux difficulties myself, and sometimes it is also package/dependency related.

So thanks for the feedback, maybe other people who use his flavor of linux, post some suggestions so we can turn this user into a happy CB user.

Personal note : Eclipse is not really that good (actually I want to say : it sucks, but I didn't ;-) ). Oh yes, don't forget the dependency for java, I have had dependency issues for java, and it's zillion versions (1.4 1.5 1.6 ...).

DrewBoo:
Yes, Unix OSes can certainly be like that.  Some more than others.  On my home Ubuntu machine, C::B built from source and ran immediatelty.  On my work Solaris machine, it was certainly more painful.

I haven't tried CentOS, so i can't speak on how easy that OS is to deal with.

That being said, if you are one of the pontential adopters that you describe who have lost faith, this is the place to find people that will help you with whatever it is that's "stuck".

There's also the wiki.  wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=Installing_Code::Blocks_from_source_on_Linux

mega_newbie:
I followed the directions:  wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=Installing_Code::Blocks_from_source_on_Linux
My OS is CentOS 5.0.2
All went smooth and I had CB up and running in about and hour(++)
 :D

jbone:
I have the same problem.  CentOs 5 means installing wxWidgets, means installing gtk, means installing pango, means installing glib.  Pango doesn't recognize source install of glib.  I think I need pkg-config, but can't find that (it is old?).  Would have loved to try your IDE, as eclipse does suck.  Anyway, back to eclipse I guess.

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