Sunday, October 23, 2016

Setup Code Blocks Nightly on Windows

Setup Code Blocks Nightly on Windows


Install MinGW GCC Port on Windows.
1. Just go to this address [ http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get-inst/ ]
2. Select the topmost link that looks (almost) like mingw-get-inst-XXXXXXXX
3. Download the exe you see there and execute it on your machine keeping the Internet connected. Everything else is pretty self explanatory.

Now for the nightlies of Code::Blocks.
1. Go to [ http://forums.codeblocks.org/ ]
2. Look for the section called Nightly Builds, go into it.
3. The latest nightly is the first one, click it.
4. Every nightly release has 3 links. Links to the 2 DLLs and the zip file containing the release. Download all of them (unless youve done this before and know exactly what you can ignore here).
5. Extract all of them in the same directory. If they are in folders bring them out.
6. If the extraction went well, executing codeblocks.exe wont be any problem.
7. After codeblocks.exe opens, Open this section Settings > Compiler. If you cant find it, look at the top row of options in the Code::Blocks window.
8. In the Window that opens youll see some tabs slightly after the first options. Click on the fourth one called Toolchain Executables.
9. Look for the button called "Auto Detect". Click it. If it reports success then youre done. Otherwise click on "..." that is to the left of "Auto-Detect" and browse to the folder where youve installed MInGW.

I hope everything went well. To check if your compiler is working fine just compile a "Hello World" program. :D Any questions are welcome.

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