Code::Blocks Setup for SOI

On Windows

Install mingw-w64. Run the Windows installer (https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/ — “MinGW-W64 Online Installer”).

On a 64 bit Windows, use the following settings:

Settings for 64 bit Windows

If you have a 32 bit Windows, select i686 as architecture.

On Ubuntu

Make sure that you have GCC installed, preferably a version $\ge 7$. To see which version you have installed, simply run gcc --version from the terminal.

On Windows

Download and run the installer from Sourceforge. You don’t need to change any of the installation options, the default ones are fine. Select “Yes” to run Code::Blocks now.

Run Code::Blocks now

When you run Code::Blocks for the first time, it asks you which compiler it should use. Just hit ‘OK’, we will configure the compiler manually.

Compilers auto-detection

Select ‘No’ when asked whether you want to change the file extension policy.

File associations

Next we will set up the compiler settings. Click on Settings>Compiler.

Compiler options menu

Select Cygwin GCC. (Yes, we are not using Cygwin, but the minGW64 compiler executable names match those from Cygwin.).

Select Cygwin GCC

First of, click on ‘Set as default’.

Set as default

Next, on the ‘Toolchain executables’ tab, set the installation directory to the place you installed minGW. (On Ubuntu, the path should be /usr/.)

Toolchain location

Next, we will configure the compiler flags. Go to the ‘Compiler settings’ tab, select the ‘Other compiler options’ tab and paste the following flags

-std=c++17

-Wall

-Wextra

-DLOCAL_RUN

-D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG

-Wno-sign-compare

Now hit ‘OK’. If the compiler asks you about enabling compiler flags, click ‘Yes’.

Enable compiler flags

You’ll get an environment error in the bottom right, talking about ‘GNU GCC’, but you can safely ignore it, as we set the compiler to ‘Cygwin GCC’.

On Ubuntu

Try running sudo apt-get install codeblocks. On some versions of Ubuntu, this installs an ancient version of Code::Blocks. (Version 13.12) If that is the case, try the following commands instead to get version 16.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:damien-moore/codeblocks-stable

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install codeblocks

Next, follow the instructions for Windows, but use ‘GNU GCC’ instead of ‘Cygwin GCC’.

On Windows

Download and unzip the SOI project template from here. (If you’re on Ubuntu, instead use the version here.) Open your Code::Blocks installation directory (In my case C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeBlocks) and navigate to share\CodeBlocks\templates\wizard. In there, you should find a bunch of folders (‘arduino’, ‘arm’, ‘avr’, …).

Copy files from zip to wizard

Copy the ‘soi’ folder from the zip file into the wizard folder. (The resulting folder path should look something like C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeBlocks\share\CodeBlocks\templates\wizard\soi.) We now also need to register the template.

1. Copy config.script from the wizard folder to your desktop.
2. Edit config.script on your desktop: Open the file in your favorite text editor. Below function RegisterWizards(), there should be a bunch of lines with calls to RegisterWizard(...). Before all those lines, add a new line with

RegisterWizard(wizProject,     _T("soi"),      _T("A SOI task"),   _T("Console"));

config.script with newly added line

3. Copy config.script from your desktop back to the wizard folder, overwriting the existing file. If you’re asked about admin rights, agree to continue.

Allow admin rights

At this point, you should reopen Code::Block, so that it registers the project template.

On Ubuntu

The path to the wizzard folder should be /usr/share/codeblocks/templates/wizard/. On order for you to be able to edit the files there, you’ll need to run file manager with sudo. (sudo nautilus from the terminal.) Other than that, you can follow the instructions for Windows.