#SET UP CODEBLOCKS COMPILER INSTALL#

#SET UP CODEBLOCKS COMPILER INSTALL#

Install it in any folder where you have write permissions (perhaps even a USB device). If you have older MinGW installations or cygwin installed make sure that MinGW C++ Toolbox directory paths are positioned before any other mingw/cygwin paths in the PATH environment variable. You will need to select one of the Mingw versions. Also make sure that the paths in Search Directories settings are pointing to valid MinGW C++ Toolbox sub-directories. You can use the little button to the right of the directory entry field to navigate to the correct directory. Make sure that the Compiler Installation Directory is set to your MinGW C++ Toolbox directory. Open up the Compiler/Debugger settings dialogue. You are now ready to use CodeBlocks to create GUI programs. To create one, click menu File > New > Project > wxWidgets > follow the instructions and select wxWidgets 3.0 among the choices > a new empty GUI design will open. The Dev-cpp installation uses MinGW 3.4.2 which will not work with the Ogre SDK. To check whether your installation is correct, you should try to create a new GUI project. For those migrating from Dev-cpp, this can be a problem, since Code::Blocks will probably find the Dev-cpp installation of MinGW before the one you just installed. The next setting Code::Blocks will ask about is whether you want to associate C and C++ files with Code::Blocks. Make sure to click on it, and then click Set as default. Step 8: Go to Settings->Compiler->Toolchain Executables and click on Auto Detect and make sure that the directory is something like this: C:Program Files. If you have several different MinGW versions installed, Code::Blocks will only select the first one it finds. Setting up Code::Blocks Getting Started When you first open up Code::Blocks, you should be prompted with this screen: GNU GCC Compiler should be the first one.

Set up codeblocks compiler