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Help / Re: Building CB : cannot find -lexchndl.dll: No such file or directory

« Last post by stahta01 on September 19, 2026, 02:08:32 pm »

Under Msys2 MinGW, I would try building using the configure/make method.
Link to patch to help build using that method https://github.com/stahta01/MINGW-packages/blob/codeblocks-git/mingw-w64-codeblocks/003-fix-link-to-tinyxml.patch

Configure options that are likely needed

Code

 --disable-pch --with-contrib-plugins=all,-Valgrind

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

« Last post by SmithJoe on September 19, 2026, 01:54:11 pm »

That sounds like a genuine resource issue, especially with only 8 GB of RAM. The 4 GB usage and long freezes would make me check plugins/code completion first, and possibly compare with 20.03 again to see if the problem is specific to 25.03.

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Help / Re: Building CB : cannot find -lexchndl.dll: No such file or directory

« Last post by ollydbg on September 19, 2026, 03:58:45 am »

I also suggest building the C::B with the latest SVN code.

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Development / Re: Change to C++17?

« Last post by ollydbg on September 19, 2026, 03:57:25 am »

Would tickets be moved also?

If the git means github, then I found that there are some project which can import sourceforge ticket to github, something like: Ajnasz/sf2gh: Move sourceforge tickets to github or cmungall/gosf2github: migrates tickets to GH from SF.

I don't want to use SVN, because SVN can't let me create a serial of patches. 

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Help / Re: Building CB : cannot find -lexchndl.dll: No such file or directory

« Last post by stahta01 on September 18, 2026, 07:17:32 pm »

Are you trying to build the last release or a recent SVN version of CB?

If last release, build the package linked here https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/blob/master/mingw-w64-codeblocks/PKGBUILD

Tim S

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Help / Building CB : cannot find -lexchndl.dll: No such file or directory

« Last post by charles5577 on September 18, 2026, 10:22:39 am »

I have been using wxWidgets + CodeBlocks for quite a few years now. Very good IDE. Every year or so I check for updates and reinstall everything including the compiler. Before I used the TDM-GCC compiler but this time I switched to the MSYS2. I downloaded a functional version of CodeBlocks and then tried to build a new version of CodeBlocks using CodeBlocks_wx32_64.cbp. It does not find exchndl.dll.

exchndl.dll exists in "C:\msys64\codeblocks_25.03\src\exchndl\win64\bin"
I tried moving it to "C:\msys64\codeblocks_25.03\src\exchndl\win64\lib" but that did not work.
I tried renaming it to exchndl.dll.a. That did not work.

For the linker, line 150 of CodeBlocks_wx32_64.cbp has "<Add library="exchndl.dll" />" and line 166 has         
"<Add directory="exchndl/win64/lib" />".

I am wondering if the new compiler/linker does not accept a dll as a linkable library.

Can anyone help with this?

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Development / Re: Change to C++17?

« Last post by Miguel Gimenez on September 17, 2026, 07:56:14 pm »

Would tickets be moved also?

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Development / Re: Change to C++17?

« Last post by ollydbg on September 17, 2026, 02:34:38 pm »

I'm OK with C++17.

BTW: about the code repo, can we switch to git?

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Development / Re: Change to C++17?

« Last post by christo on September 17, 2026, 06:10:53 am »

My current development environment (MinGW8.1) only supports upto C++2a, I can change C::B to C++20 or C++23 but then I will be out of the game for a while...

I think c++17 should be fine for now

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Using Code::Blocks / Re: [Solved]How to set different debugger for each build target?

« Last post by SmithJoe on September 16, 2026, 03:32:47 pm »

Hi, everyone.

It seems that debugging a 32bit program with 64bit GDB doesn't work on Windows 7, so I create two debugger settings: one for 32bit, the other for 64bit, and I want to set different debugger for each build target(e.g. 32bit target use 32bit GDB, 64bit target use 64bit GDB), but I can't find any settings for this, I know how to change active debugger manually, but how to do this auto when I switch build targets.

I use CodeBlocks DEBUGGER BRANCH rev7790.

Sorry for my bad english. Thanks!

Interesting issue. It would be useful if Code::Blocks could automatically switch the debugger based on the selected build target.