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Using Code::Blocks / Perfomance question: CodeBlocks "normal" RAM usage and file closing delay

« Last post by CH4Code on Today at 01:01:57 pm »

Hi,
I have been using CodeBlocks for hobby projects for a while now and upgraded from the 2020 Version to the 25.03 Version a while back.
However I have noticed some very slow reaction times in the 25.03 version and investigated the issue, which I did not have with C::B 2020.

Especially when I close files, it freezes the application for about 10 seconds, which doesn't make any sense to me.
I also noticed that C:B consumes 4GB of RAM by just starting it, pushing my memory to above 90% used. Is this normal? I'm sorry to compare but Visual Studio with a loaded complex project only consumes ~500MB of RAM.
Also while closing my project the RAM usage suddenly increases by 1GB and never quite goes down again. How does that make any sense?
Finally, I have to reload my project quite often because I use cmake to re-generate the project file whenever I add or change resources etc. and that also takes about 30-45 seconds, which feels a bit painful.

I'm on windows 11 (8GB RAM), using msys2, mingw64, cmake, ninja, with CodeBlocks.

I don't remember having an issue with CB 2020 before (closing files being slow).
1) Can I do anything to reduce the RAM usage of CB or 2) the file closing issue? 3) Is this amount of memory usage expected?

I already reinstalled CodeBlocks and got rid of an unrelated "lib_finder.dll not found" error, thanks to forum posts, maybe you can help me out here, too?

Thank you.

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Development / Re: svn14014 regression: cb compile syntax error

« Last post by Miguel Gimenez on Today at 10:34:39 am »

Fixed, thank you. I wrote this using wx3.0, so it went unnoticed.

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General (but related to Code::Blocks) / Re: Faild to build C::B with github action with latest wxWidgets 3.3.3

« Last post by christo on Today at 05:38:41 am »

Hi Pecan,

I think some lines in Makefile.am were deleted accidently in revision 13996, restoring that should fix the issue.

https://sourceforge.net/p/codeblocks/code/13996/tree//trunk/src/plugins/contrib/codesnippets/Makefile.am?diff=51421f1dc431436b6eb31d56:13995

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Development / svn14014 regression: cb compile syntax error

« Last post by blauzahn on Yesterday at 11:25:29 pm »

in pluginsconfigurationdlg.cpp:41

Code

#if wxCHECK_VERSION(3, 3, 2)
    const bool IsDark = wxSystemSettings::GetAppearance()IsDark();
#else
    const bool IsDark = false;
#endif

There is a point missing before IsDark();

Should be:

Code

const bool IsDark = wxSystemSettings::GetAppearance().IsDark();

Thank you.

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Development / Re: Change to C++17?

« Last post by Miguel Gimenez on Yesterday at 09:13:56 am »

Squirrel warning removed in r14013, thanks christo and LETARTARE.

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Development / Re: Change to C++17?

« Last post by LETARTARE on Yesterday at 12:23:50 am »

@christo :Thanks
Errors in Squirrel are removed by the indicated correction. (r14011)

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Nightly builds / Re: The 06 September 2026 build (14003) is out.

« Last post by lp08 on September 10, 2026, 11:19:05 pm »

wxWidgets Debug Allert
A debugging check in this application has failed.
../../src/common/wincmn.cpp(3370): assert "!wxMouseCapture::IsInCaptureStack(this)" failed in captureMouse(): Recapturing the mouse in the same windows? 

I'm having a problem reproducing this. Can you give us a few steps to cause the problem?

I opened the project containing my program and two generated log.txt files in Code::Blocks. I executed my program using the MSYS2 terminal. Upon returning to Code::Blocks, I reload the log view, and clicking inside the Code::Blocks interface causes it to crash / throw an error.

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Development / Re: Change to C++17?

« Last post by killerbot on September 10, 2026, 08:07:09 pm »

I am building the nightlies for a few weeks (?months) with -std=c++23.

I would suggest to step up to 23, and let's avoid extension, so I would suggest not to use 'gnu++xx'.

What do you think ?

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Development / Re: Change to C++17?

« Last post by stahta01 on September 10, 2026, 07:50:38 pm »

Remember to update the file from "https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx.html" in the "m4" folder.

The link above did not work searching found this link "https://github.com/autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive/blob/master/m4/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx.m4"

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Development / Re: Change to C++17?

« Last post by christo on September 10, 2026, 07:17:29 pm »

I think plain c++20 should be okay as we do not use any gnu specific extensions.

Regarding squirrel warnings, looks like it is fixed upstream by casting : https://github.com/albertodemichelis/squirrel/commit/6ad6f6427157757c4431907dde0a1e5712a5cf67