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User forums => Using Code::Blocks => Topic started by: tiwag on December 05, 2005, 09:06:07 am

Title: Recommended Build Environment
Post by: tiwag on December 05, 2005, 09:06:07 am
i'm just starting to setup a fresh Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy
and would like to know, what is the recommended build-environment for CodeBlocks ?


i assume for all of these following packages i can take the latest version from the ubuntu-repositories,
has someone had any problems using a particular version ?

gcc, g++
gcc is version 4.0 ok ?

wx-Widgets, what's recommended to use
wxwidgets  2.6.1  or  2.6.2,  ansi  or  unicode   ???


am i missing something ?

thanks
Title: Re: Recommended Build Environment
Post by: cyberkoa on December 05, 2005, 09:28:15 am
If I am not mistaken , you need build-essential, g++ , lib-tools package .

C::B can only run on wxGTK2.6.x  with Unicode make  (I remember last time the unicode conversion proposed by rick is to solve the Linux prolem)

I use wxwidgets-2.6.2 , manage to compile using the autotools (bootstrap .. configure ...) but it was 1 month ago , recently C::B is under heavy changes , maybe there are some changes ..

it is better to put all the code under <home> directory or else it will have a lot of authority problem ..unless you use root , I suffer from that the first few times of my trial.
Title: Re: Recommended Build Environment
Post by: mandrav on December 05, 2005, 10:42:02 am
C::B compiles and works fine out-of-the-box in Ubuntu (that's what I use :) ).
Just install the essentials (compiler, autotools), install the wxGTK packages (no need to build it yourself) and wxgtk-common and then build C::B. Easy as 1-2-3 :)
Title: Re: Recommended Build Environment
Post by: che on December 06, 2005, 10:17:25 pm
Quote from: mandrav on December 05, 2005, 10:42:02 am
C::B compiles and works fine out-of-the-box in Ubuntu (that's what I use :) ).
Just install the essentials (compiler, autotools), install the wxGTK packages (no need to build it yourself) and wxgtk-common and then build C::B. Easy as 1-2-3 :)

Hi Mandrav,

For the unexperienced users, can you be more precise about "build Easy as 1-2-3"  ;-)

Thanks a lot.
Pascual.
Title: Re: Recommended Build Environment
Post by: mandrav on December 06, 2005, 10:41:27 pm
Have you read the wiki?
Read this (http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=Compiling_Code::Blocks_in_Linux_%28applies_to_all_distros%29), the section titled "Code::Blocks installation".
Title: Re: Recommended Build Environment
Post by: che on December 06, 2005, 10:55:55 pm
Sorry  :( I have just done it

Sorry again and thanks a lot.
Pascual.
Title: Re: Recommended Build Environment
Post by: cyberkoa on December 07, 2005, 04:30:43 am
Quote from: che on December 06, 2005, 10:55:55 pm
Sorry  :( I have just done it

Sorry again and thanks a lot.
Pascual.

Can you briefly explain which steps you have done ?



1. get all the packages for building like build-essential , autotools etc

2. compile wxGTK / install wxGTK

3. check the setup.h , the line wxUSE_UNICODE should be set to 1.

4. make sure wx-config is in the search path , can be confirmed using "which wx-config"

make sure that the your user id have the rights to read/write wxGTK path

download the CB source and put under your /usr/home/codeblocks


you need to use dos2unix to convert the source to unix-compatible format.

you can search the thread in Linux/Unix section , there is a thread about compilation of CB under debian , use that as a guide to compile


basically the CB compilation steps are
./bootstrap
./configure
./make
./make install    <- this one need to use sudo