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===Prerequisites===
 
===Prerequisites===
  
In order to successfully compile Code::Blocks, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxWidgets wxWidgets] User Interface library <u>must be installed</u>. For most Linux users, this is maybe the only dependency not already installed. wxWidget can be used directly on top of the X server, in this case the variant of the wxWidget library is called wxX11. However this library [http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/WxWidgets_Compared_To_Other_Toolkits#Why_You_Shouldn.27t_Use_wxWidgets "is sub-par compared to other toolkits and unstable"]. Hence Code::Blocks uses wxGTK, the version of wxWidget based on GTK+. The exact requirement is libwxGTK-2.8.0 or later (2.8.3 is not recommanded because of some troubles). This creates an additional dependency on GTK+, consider the following:
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In order to successfully compile Code::Blocks, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxWidgets wxWidgets] User Interface library <u>must be installed</u>. For most Linux users, this is maybe the only dependency not already installed. wxWidget can be used directly on top of the X server, in this case the variant of the wxWidget library is called wxX11. However this library [http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/WxWidgets_Compared_To_Other_Toolkits#Why_You_Shouldn.27t_Use_wxWidgets is sub-par compared to other toolkits and unstable]. Hence Code::Blocks uses wxGTK, the version of wxWidget based on GTK+. The exact requirement is libwxGTK-2.8.0 or later (2.8.3 is not recommended because of some troubles). This creates an additional dependency on GTK+, consider the following:
  
 
A possible implementation which does not exist:  
 
A possible implementation which does not exist:  
  
''Code::Blocks  ->  xwWidget (libwxX11)  ->  X''
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''Code::Blocks  ->  wxWidgets (libwxX11)  ->  X''
  
 
Current Code::Blocks implementation:  
 
Current Code::Blocks implementation:  
  
''Code::Blocks  ->  '''xwWidget (> libwxGTK2.8)'''  ->  '''GTK+ (> libgtk-x11-2.0)'''  ->  X''
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''Code::Blocks  ->  '''wxWidgets (> libwxGTK2.8)'''  ->  '''GTK+ (> libgtk-x11-2.0)'''  ->  X''
  
 
This document helps you to install libwxGTK if necessary but does not cover the installation of GTK+. GTK+ is probably installed on your Linux anyway, so don't worry ;)
 
This document helps you to install libwxGTK if necessary but does not cover the installation of GTK+. GTK+ is probably installed on your Linux anyway, so don't worry ;)
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=== Checking the presence of GTK+ library ===
 
=== Checking the presence of GTK+ library ===
  
Have a look in /usr/lib for something like "libgtk-x11-2.0.so" (Note the library must be 2.0 minimum). Alternatively, do a search with your package manager or go to your Linux distribution forum for help. If you don't want to loose time, you can even forget this check since there is a good probability that everything is already installed.
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Have a look in /usr/lib ( /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu for 64 bits) for something like "libgtk-x11-2.0.so" (Note the library must be 2.0 minimum). Alternatively, do a search with your package manager or go to your Linux distribution forum for help. If you don't want to loose time, you can even forget this check since there is a good probability that everything is already installed.
  
 
===Library wxGTK installation===
 
===Library wxGTK installation===
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==== Checking the presence of libwxGTK library ====
 
==== Checking the presence of libwxGTK library ====
  
In your package manager, look for 'libwxgtk' keyword and verify that '''all''' libwxgtk2.8 stuffs are installed. If you find the libraries uninstalled, well '''just install them and go directly to Code::Blocks installation'''.
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In your package manager, look for 'libwxgtk' keyword and verify that '''all''' libwxgtk2.8 stuffs are installed. If you find the libraries uninstalled, just '''install them and go directly to [https://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=Installing_Code::Blocks_from_source_on_Linux#Code::Blocks_installation Code::Blocks installation]'''.
  
Alternatively you can do the same in command line:
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Alternatively you can do the same in the command line (the following is an example, there may be more than two packages):
  
 
<pre>$ ls /usr/lib/libwx_gtk* //to verify the presence
 
<pre>$ ls /usr/lib/libwx_gtk* //to verify the presence
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$ sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-0</pre>
 
$ sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-0</pre>
  
and verify that you get some outputs. If you see nothing you must install the library as described below, and you can redo this check afterwards to verify that the installation worked correctly.
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If you don't find any packages you must install the library from source as described below, and you can redo this check afterwards to verify that the installation worked correctly.
  
  
''Note for Debian (and Ubuntu?) users:'' You can use  
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''Note for Debian and Ubuntu users:'' You can use  
  
 
<pre>$ update-alternatives --config wx-config</pre>
 
<pre>$ update-alternatives --config wx-config</pre>
  
to see which version of libwx is there or not and currently active. If you have different versions, select one superior to 2.8.0, if you have nothing go to next step.
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to see which version of libwx is there or not and currently active.
 +
 
 +
And, Debian and Ubuntu user can use this to add a value to the list of choices
 +
 
 +
<pre>$ update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/wx-config wx-config /opt/wx/2.8/bin/wx-config 50</pre>
  
 
====Getting wxGTK sources====
 
====Getting wxGTK sources====
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<pre>tar zxf wxGTK-2.8.7.tar.gz</pre>
 
<pre>tar zxf wxGTK-2.8.7.tar.gz</pre>
  
Switch to the wxGTK directory
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Switch to the wxGTK directory:
  
 
<pre>cd wxGTK-2.8.7</pre>
 
<pre>cd wxGTK-2.8.7</pre>
  
====wxWidgets build====
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====Building wxWidgets====
  
Here we will create a seperate build directory instead of building from the src directory, so that we can easily rebuild with different options (unicode / ansi, monolithic / many libs, etc).
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Here we will create a separate build directory instead of building from the src directory, so that we can easily rebuild with different options (unicode / ansi, monolithic / many libs, etc).
  
The documentation says the default is for gtk2 to use unicode and wx > 2.5 to build as a monolithic library.  This doesn't appear to be the case, so these flags are passed to configure.
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The documentation says the default is for gtk2 to use unicode and wx > 2.5 to build as a monolithic library.  This doesn't appear to be the case, so these flags are passed to configure:
  
 
  mkdir build_gtk2_shared_monolithic_unicode
 
  mkdir build_gtk2_shared_monolithic_unicode
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  exit
 
  exit
  
Add /opt/wx/2.8/bin to the PATH (if you're shell is bash then edit /etc/profile or ~/.bash_profile)
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Add /opt/wx/2.8/bin to the PATH (if your shell is bash then edit /etc/profile or ~/.bash_profile)
(On Suse 10.1 edit /etc/profile.local, it will only be available after a new login). an example PATH
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(On ''Suse 10.1'' edit /etc/profile.local, it will only be available after a new login). An example PATH:
 
  export PATH=/usr/bin:/opt/wx/2.8/bin:$PATH
 
  export PATH=/usr/bin:/opt/wx/2.8/bin:$PATH
  
'''Note:''' On Ubuntu Hoary it was necessary to check "Run command as login shell"
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Add /opt/wx/2.8/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf (nano /etc/ld.so.conf), then run:
in the gnome-terminal profile-settings, otherwise the PATH changes are not available in a gnome-terminal window.
 
 
 
add /opt/wx/2.8/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf (nano /etc/ld.so.conf)
 
then run:
 
 
  ldconfig
 
  ldconfig
 
  source /etc/profile
 
  source /etc/profile
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which should give you /opt/wx/2.8
 
which should give you /opt/wx/2.8
 
  wx-config --libs
 
  wx-config --libs
which should have at least
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which should have at least:
 
  -L/opt/wx/2.8/lib -lwx_gtk2-2.8
 
  -L/opt/wx/2.8/lib -lwx_gtk2-2.8
 
but can contain other flags as well.
 
but can contain other flags as well.
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===Code::Blocks installation===
 
===Code::Blocks installation===
  
====Downloading Code::Blocks====
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====Getting Code::Blocks sources====
  
You can get Code::Blocks source code in one way:
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You can get Code::Blocks source code [https://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/25 from the website as a tarball] or from the [https://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/7 SVN repository] (this second method is described below).
* Get the latest sources from the SVN repository.
 
This method is described below.
 
  
=====Getting the latest sources from SVN=====
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=====From SVN repository=====
'''IMPORTANT NOTICE: The Sourceforge CVS is no longer used although it still exists'''
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NOTICE: The SourceForge CVS is no longer used although it still exists.
  
 
Enter your development directory:
 
Enter your development directory:
 
<pre>cd ~/devel</pre>
 
<pre>cd ~/devel</pre>
  
Then checkout the source using one of [https://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/7 these] methods.
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Then checkout the source using one of [https://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/7 these] methods. This will create the directory <tt>trunk</tt>. Change to the source code directory, by issuing the following command:
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 +
<pre>cd trunk</pre>
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 +
If you are a ''Gentoo'' user at this point, please see [[Compiling_Code::Blocks_in_Gentoo]].
  
This will create the directory <tt>trunk</tt>.
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Before beginning, it is often a good idea to check you have recent versions of autoconf and automake - repositories versions are not always recent enough. (if you do not have automake, then you will get "cannot find aclocal" error). If you're compiling the svn trunk versions of CodeBlocks (or future versions) then the unix build has switched to autotools. So first build wxWidgets as described above and then build CodeBlocks. In short, these commands build Code::Blocks from sources ''and'' installs it:
Change to the source code directory, by issuing the following command:
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<pre> ./bootstrap
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./configure
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make
 +
make install
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</pre>
  
<pre>cd trunk</pre>
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The long story is as follows: First run:
 +
<pre> ./bootstrap</pre>
  
====Building Code::Blocks SVN====
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This sets up the configure script and its dependencies. It only needs to be run once (after downloading the source from svn).
If you are a Gentoo user, please see [[Compiling_Code::Blocks_in_Gentoo]].
 
  
Before beginning, it is often a good idea to check you have recent versions of autoconf and automake - repositories versions are not always recent enough. (if you do not have automake, then you will get "cannot find aclocal" error).
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'''If you get errors like (...):'''
 +
./bootstrap: libtoolize: not found
 +
...then install the "libtool" package using your package manager.
  
If you're compiling the svn trunk versions of CodeBlocks (or future versions) then the unix build has switched to autotools. So first build wxWidgets as described above and then build CodeBlocks as follows:
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./bootstrap: 64: ./bootstrap: aclocal: not found
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...then the "autoconf" and "automake" package using your package manager.
  
  ./bootstrap
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  bad interpreter: File not found
 +
...then there exists a problem with DOS line-endings, for example if you cross compile to a Windows partition. Simply check-out a fresh copy of CodeBlocks from SVN.
 +
<br>
 +
Or, instead of downloading from SVN, you might consider using the little command line tool [http://dos2unix.sourceforge.net/ dos2unix], which normally comes with most distributions.
 +
<br>
 +
 
 +
  (".infig.status: error: cannot find input file: Makefile")
 +
...(configure aborts with some unspecific error messagelike that), then you might consider also running dos2unix bootstrap acinclude.m4 codeblocks.pc.in configure.in Makefile.am before running bootstrap. Once you've run the bootstrap script, jump to next step.
  
This sets up the configure script and its dependencies.  It only needs to be run once (after downloading the source from svn).  '''If you get errors like:'''
 
 
  aclocal:configure.in:61: warning: macro `AM_OPTIONS_WXCONFIG' not found in library
 
  aclocal:configure.in:61: warning: macro `AM_OPTIONS_WXCONFIG' not found in library
Then aclocal is having trouble finding the wxWidgets .m4 files.  You can do one of two things:
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...then aclocal is having trouble finding the wxWidgets .m4 files.  You can do one of two things:
 
To just get bootstrap to find the path this time do:
 
To just get bootstrap to find the path this time do:
<!-- *********** Bad syntax... removed 2006-08-28 by BentFX ****************************
 
export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="--acdir=`wx-config --prefix`/share/aclocal"
 
 
: Note: The above command resulted in missing macros when running ./bootstrap for me. Setting an additional search path instead of overwriting like above worked for me. In case of missing macros try
 
***********************************************************************************-->
 
 
<pre>export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I `wx-config --prefix`/share/aclocal"</pre> <!--[[User:Jabber|Jabber]] 06:24, 2 August 2006 (EDT)-->
 
<pre>export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I `wx-config --prefix`/share/aclocal"</pre> <!--[[User:Jabber|Jabber]] 06:24, 2 August 2006 (EDT)-->
  
 
To change the aclocal search path more permanently do:
 
To change the aclocal search path more permanently do:
 
  echo `wx-config --prefix`/share/aclocal >> /usr/share/aclocal/dirlist
 
  echo `wx-config --prefix`/share/aclocal >> /usr/share/aclocal/dirlist
Then aclocal will also search somewhere like /opt/wx/2.6/share/aclocal
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Then aclocal will also search somewhere like /opt/wx/2.8/share/aclocal
  
'''Note for Ubuntu users:''' The above is not the correct way to fix the AM_* errors. Rather, you only need to install the package named "wx-common" (Universe repository).
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'''''Note for Ubuntu users:''''' The above is not the correct way to fix the AM_* errors. Rather, you only need to install the package named "wx-common" (Universe repository).
  
If you get something like
 
 
  The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
 
  The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
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...then this can be solved by something like:
 +
ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/share/aclocal" ./bootstrap
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(...maybe adopting the path, so use `wx-config --prefix` is necessary.)
  
it can be solved by something like: (adapt path, use `wx-config --prefix` is necessary)
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====Installing Code::Blocks sources====
 +
You can read the BUILD file included in the source, but everything is very straightforward. Do:
 +
<pre> ./configure
 +
make
 +
make install</pre>
  
ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/share/aclocal" ./bootstrap
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You may need to run make install with super user rights, in that case use:
 +
<pre> sudo make install</pre>
 +
...for the last step.
  
(*Note// '''If you run ./bootstrap and get errors like''':
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If you have multiple versions of wxWidgets installed or kept them in place, you can use:
  : bad interpreter: File not found
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  ./configure --with-wx-config=/path/to/wx-config
then there exists a problem with DOS line-endings. i had this error after i tried to build a  codeblocks from sources which were checked out with cvs on a windows machine. After i checked out a fresh copy of codeblocks from cvs under Ubuntu linux (see above topic: Downloading the latest source package fom SVN), all errors were gone.
 
//tiwag 051008*)<br>
 
Or, instead of downloading from SVN, you might consider using the little command line tool dos2unix, which normally comes with most distributions. //lizzarddude060103
 
<br>
 
If configure aborts with some unspecific error message(".infig.status: error: cannot find input file: Makefile"), you might consider also running
 
dos2unix bootstrap acinclude.m4 codeblocks.pc.in configure.in Makefile.am
 
before running bootstrap
 
  
Once you've run the bootstrap script, installing is as simple as:
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'''Note:''' The Nassi Shneiderman plugin (part of the contrib plugins) has a dependency on [http://www.boost.org boost] which is needed to compile this plugin. Boost does not need to be compiled therefore. It is not checked for the existing of boost at the moment (except for debian build-system, there it is a build-dependency), so if you configure C::B to be build without Nassi Schneiderman, it should not lead to problems in case you don't have/want boost.
./configure
 
make
 
make install
 
 
 
If you have multiple versions of wxWidgets installed or kept them inplace, you can use
 
./configure --with-wx-config=/path/to/wx-config
 
  
 
To uninstall you can later run:
 
To uninstall you can later run:
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If you want to recompile everything, first run:
 
If you want to recompile everything, first run:
make clean
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<pre> make clean
 
  make distclean
 
  make distclean
 
  make clean-bin
 
  make clean-bin
  make clean-zipfiles
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  make clean-zipfiles</pre>
 
and then follow the above sequence for installing.
 
and then follow the above sequence for installing.
  
 
By default, CodeBlocks will install to /usr/local.  If you want it in its own tree (so you can have multiple versions of CodeBlocks, each in its own subdirectory of /opt) replace the above ./configure command with:
 
By default, CodeBlocks will install to /usr/local.  If you want it in its own tree (so you can have multiple versions of CodeBlocks, each in its own subdirectory of /opt) replace the above ./configure command with:
./configure --prefix=/opt/codeblocks-svn
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<pre> ./configure --prefix=/opt/codeblocks-svn</pre>
 
or similar.  Then you can later install a different build like:
 
or similar.  Then you can later install a different build like:
./configure --prefix=/opt/codeblocks2-svn
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<pre> ./configure --prefix=/opt/codeblocks2-svn</pre>
 
followed by 'make && make install' as usual.
 
followed by 'make && make install' as usual.
  
 
By default, CodeBlocks will not compile the contributed plugins from SVN.  If you want to compile / install them too, replace the above ./configure command with:
 
By default, CodeBlocks will not compile the contributed plugins from SVN.  If you want to compile / install them too, replace the above ./configure command with:
./configure --with-contrib-plugins=all
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<pre> ./configure --with-contrib-plugins=all</pre>
 
followed by 'make && make install' as usual.
 
followed by 'make && make install' as usual.
  
 
To see a list of other options available for configuring the build of CodeBlocks do:
 
To see a list of other options available for configuring the build of CodeBlocks do:
./configure --help
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<pre> ./configure --help</pre>
  
To compile under gentoo, use
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To compile under ''Gentoo'', use:
./configure --with-wx-config=wx-config-2.8
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<pre> ./configure --with-wx-config=wx-config-2.8</pre>
  
====Resolving issues with Code::Blocks SVN====
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====Resolving runtime issues====
  
 
When running Code::Blocks after the installation it might happen, that the system complains:
 
When running Code::Blocks after the installation it might happen, that the system complains:
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  ldconfig
 
  ldconfig
 
That's it - Code::Blocks should now work just fine as all libraries are being found.
 
That's it - Code::Blocks should now work just fine as all libraries are being found.
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Note that for both you may need super user rights again - so use the sudo command as needed.

Latest revision as of 05:20, 8 July 2023

These are instructions on how to build Code::Blocks under Linux. These instructions should work for all Linux distros, as we'll be installing from sources.

Prerequisites

In order to successfully compile Code::Blocks, the wxWidgets User Interface library must be installed. For most Linux users, this is maybe the only dependency not already installed. wxWidget can be used directly on top of the X server, in this case the variant of the wxWidget library is called wxX11. However this library is sub-par compared to other toolkits and unstable. Hence Code::Blocks uses wxGTK, the version of wxWidget based on GTK+. The exact requirement is libwxGTK-2.8.0 or later (2.8.3 is not recommended because of some troubles). This creates an additional dependency on GTK+, consider the following:

A possible implementation which does not exist:

Code::Blocks -> wxWidgets (libwxX11) -> X

Current Code::Blocks implementation:

Code::Blocks -> wxWidgets (> libwxGTK2.8) -> GTK+ (> libgtk-x11-2.0) -> X

This document helps you to install libwxGTK if necessary but does not cover the installation of GTK+. GTK+ is probably installed on your Linux anyway, so don't worry ;)


Note: All the instructions below, assume an existing directory named ~/devel. If you 'll be using a different one, adjust the path to match. As a first step create this directory:

mkdir ~/devel

Checking the presence of GTK+ library

Have a look in /usr/lib ( /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu for 64 bits) for something like "libgtk-x11-2.0.so" (Note the library must be 2.0 minimum). Alternatively, do a search with your package manager or go to your Linux distribution forum for help. If you don't want to loose time, you can even forget this check since there is a good probability that everything is already installed.

Library wxGTK installation

Checking the presence of libwxGTK library

In your package manager, look for 'libwxgtk' keyword and verify that all libwxgtk2.8 stuffs are installed. If you find the libraries uninstalled, just install them and go directly to Code::Blocks installation.

Alternatively you can do the same in the command line (the following is an example, there may be more than two packages):

$ ls /usr/lib/libwx_gtk* //to verify the presence
$ sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-0

If you don't find any packages you must install the library from source as described below, and you can redo this check afterwards to verify that the installation worked correctly.


Note for Debian and Ubuntu users: You can use

$ update-alternatives --config wx-config

to see which version of libwx is there or not and currently active.

And, Debian and Ubuntu user can use this to add a value to the list of choices

$ update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/wx-config wx-config /opt/wx/2.8/bin/wx-config 50

Getting wxGTK sources

Visit the wxWidgets web site. Click the "Download" button at the top of the page. Under wxWidgets 2.8.7 downloads, select wxGTK. Save the file in ~/devel. After the download finishes, switch to ~/devel:

cd ~/devel

Now, untar the wxGTK sources:

tar zxf wxGTK-2.8.7.tar.gz

Switch to the wxGTK directory:

cd wxGTK-2.8.7

Building wxWidgets

Here we will create a separate build directory instead of building from the src directory, so that we can easily rebuild with different options (unicode / ansi, monolithic / many libs, etc).

The documentation says the default is for gtk2 to use unicode and wx > 2.5 to build as a monolithic library. This doesn't appear to be the case, so these flags are passed to configure:

mkdir build_gtk2_shared_monolithic_unicode
cd build_gtk2_shared_monolithic_unicode
../configure --prefix=/opt/wx/2.8 \
       --enable-xrc \
       --enable-monolithic \
       --enable-unicode
make
su
make install
exit

Add /opt/wx/2.8/bin to the PATH (if your shell is bash then edit /etc/profile or ~/.bash_profile) (On Suse 10.1 edit /etc/profile.local, it will only be available after a new login). An example PATH:

export PATH=/usr/bin:/opt/wx/2.8/bin:$PATH

Add /opt/wx/2.8/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf (nano /etc/ld.so.conf), then run:

ldconfig
source /etc/profile

That's it. Now the linker will look in /opt/wx/2.8/lib for wx libraries and you will have a monolithic shared library unicode build.

To check that things are working, type:

wx-config --prefix

which should give you /opt/wx/2.8

wx-config --libs

which should have at least:

-L/opt/wx/2.8/lib -lwx_gtk2-2.8

but can contain other flags as well.

which wx-config

should return /opt/wx/2.8/bin/wx-config

Code::Blocks installation

Getting Code::Blocks sources

You can get Code::Blocks source code from the website as a tarball or from the SVN repository (this second method is described below).

From SVN repository

NOTICE: The SourceForge CVS is no longer used although it still exists.

Enter your development directory:

cd ~/devel

Then checkout the source using one of these methods. This will create the directory trunk. Change to the source code directory, by issuing the following command:

cd trunk

If you are a Gentoo user at this point, please see Compiling_Code::Blocks_in_Gentoo.

Before beginning, it is often a good idea to check you have recent versions of autoconf and automake - repositories versions are not always recent enough. (if you do not have automake, then you will get "cannot find aclocal" error). If you're compiling the svn trunk versions of CodeBlocks (or future versions) then the unix build has switched to autotools. So first build wxWidgets as described above and then build CodeBlocks. In short, these commands build Code::Blocks from sources and installs it:

 ./bootstrap
 ./configure
 make
 make install

The long story is as follows: First run:

 ./bootstrap

This sets up the configure script and its dependencies. It only needs to be run once (after downloading the source from svn).

If you get errors like (...):

./bootstrap: libtoolize: not found

...then install the "libtool" package using your package manager.

./bootstrap: 64: ./bootstrap: aclocal: not found

...then the "autoconf" and "automake" package using your package manager.

bad interpreter: File not found

...then there exists a problem with DOS line-endings, for example if you cross compile to a Windows partition. Simply check-out a fresh copy of CodeBlocks from SVN.
Or, instead of downloading from SVN, you might consider using the little command line tool dos2unix, which normally comes with most distributions.

 (".infig.status: error: cannot find input file: Makefile")

...(configure aborts with some unspecific error messagelike that), then you might consider also running dos2unix bootstrap acinclude.m4 codeblocks.pc.in configure.in Makefile.am before running bootstrap. Once you've run the bootstrap script, jump to next step.

aclocal:configure.in:61: warning: macro `AM_OPTIONS_WXCONFIG' not found in library

...then aclocal is having trouble finding the wxWidgets .m4 files. You can do one of two things: To just get bootstrap to find the path this time do:

export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I `wx-config --prefix`/share/aclocal"

To change the aclocal search path more permanently do:

echo `wx-config --prefix`/share/aclocal >> /usr/share/aclocal/dirlist

Then aclocal will also search somewhere like /opt/wx/2.8/share/aclocal

Note for Ubuntu users: The above is not the correct way to fix the AM_* errors. Rather, you only need to install the package named "wx-common" (Universe repository).

The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'

...then this can be solved by something like:

ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/share/aclocal" ./bootstrap

(...maybe adopting the path, so use `wx-config --prefix` is necessary.)

Installing Code::Blocks sources

You can read the BUILD file included in the source, but everything is very straightforward. Do:

 ./configure
 make
 make install

You may need to run make install with super user rights, in that case use:

 sudo make install

...for the last step.

If you have multiple versions of wxWidgets installed or kept them in place, you can use:

./configure --with-wx-config=/path/to/wx-config

Note: The Nassi Shneiderman plugin (part of the contrib plugins) has a dependency on boost which is needed to compile this plugin. Boost does not need to be compiled therefore. It is not checked for the existing of boost at the moment (except for debian build-system, there it is a build-dependency), so if you configure C::B to be build without Nassi Schneiderman, it should not lead to problems in case you don't have/want boost.

To uninstall you can later run:

make uninstall

If you want to recompile everything, first run:

 make clean
 make distclean
 make clean-bin
 make clean-zipfiles

and then follow the above sequence for installing.

By default, CodeBlocks will install to /usr/local. If you want it in its own tree (so you can have multiple versions of CodeBlocks, each in its own subdirectory of /opt) replace the above ./configure command with:

 ./configure --prefix=/opt/codeblocks-svn

or similar. Then you can later install a different build like:

 ./configure --prefix=/opt/codeblocks2-svn

followed by 'make && make install' as usual.

By default, CodeBlocks will not compile the contributed plugins from SVN. If you want to compile / install them too, replace the above ./configure command with:

 ./configure --with-contrib-plugins=all

followed by 'make && make install' as usual.

To see a list of other options available for configuring the build of CodeBlocks do:

 ./configure --help

To compile under Gentoo, use:

 ./configure --with-wx-config=wx-config-2.8

Resolving runtime issues

When running Code::Blocks after the installation it might happen, that the system complains:

codeblocks: error while loading shared libraries: libcodeblocks.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

In that case make sure the library path where the Code::Blocks libraries where installed into is "known" to the system. For example: On Ubuntu using a default build process on a clean system will install the Code::Blocks executables to /use/local/bin and the libraries to /usr/local/lib. The latter is usually not known to a "clean" Ubuntu system. To add it to the search path for libraries do the following (as root / using sudo respectively): Add the following line to the file /etc/ld.so.conf:

/usr/local/lib

...and run:

ldconfig

That's it - Code::Blocks should now work just fine as all libraries are being found.

Note that for both you may need super user rights again - so use the sudo command as needed.