Installing Code::Blocks from source on Arch Linux
From Code::Blocks
Download wxWidgets 3.0.3 source code:
1. Install wget and zip
pacman -S wget zip xterm
2. Download the wxWidgets source code
wget https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.0.3/wxWidgets-3.0.3.tar.bz2
3. Extract it
tar -x -f wxWidgets-3.0.3.tar.bz2
3.Go into the extracted directory
cd wxWidgets-3.0.3
4. Configure wxWidgets
./configure --enable-unicode --enable-monolithic --enable-debug --enable-shared
5. Build it
make
6. Install it
make install
7. Install svn and other needed libraries
pacman -S svn hunspell boost
8. Go back to home
cd ~
9. Download Codeblocks code
svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/codeblocks/code/trunk codeblocks-code
10. Go into codeblocks folder
cd codeblocks-code
11. Bootstrap
./bootstrap
12. configure. We can not use the FileManager plugin because of the missing gamin library (08.2019)
./configure --with-contrib-plugins=all,-FileManager --prefix=/opt/codeblocks
13. make
make
14. Now install codeblocks to /opt/codeblocks
make install
15. Start codeblocks
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/bin /opt/codeblocks/bin/codeblocks
