
Press Next and, on the final page, accept the defaults and press Finish:

Now, give a descriptive title to the project and select where you want the project to be saved, I’ve used Hello for name and C:\DEV for the project path: Select C++ (this should be selected by default) and press Next again. On the next page, read the description of the project type and press Next. Go to File → New → Project, select Console application and press Go:

Let’s see how you can create a new C++ project. Press OK (lower right corner) to register the changes.īuilding a C++ project with Code::Blocks: Please note that the Make program entry remained unchanged! Here are the file names after I’ve removed the mingw32- prefix and changed the compiler’s installation directory: You can see the default settings in the next image: Select the Toolchain executables: first change the first three names starting with mingw32- by removing the above prefix and second change the Compiler’s installation directory to point to the MSYS2 installation directory, in my case this is C:\msys64\mingw64. Open Code::Blocks and go to Settings → Compiler: Let’s configure Code::Blocks for building C and C++ programs. At the end of the installation you will get an error about not finding a compiler, ignore the message and close this window.Ĭonfigure Code::Blocks for building C and C++ programs: Start the installation process and accept all defaults. On this page, select the version of the installer that doesn’t contain mingw in his name, typically this is the first option: Building a Fortran project with Code::Blocksįrom the Downloads section of Code::Blocks select Download the binary release.Configure Code::Blocks for building Fortran programs.Building a C++ project with Code::Blocks.Configure Code::Blocks for building C and C++ programs.There is also a video version of this tutorial: Once you have GCC installed, you can proceed with installing Code::Blocks. I recommend that you start by installing the latest version of GCC, by following my previous article, in which I’ve shown how to install GCC 9.2 with the MSYS2 software distribution.

I will show you how to use the latest version of GCC, which is 9.2 at the time of this writing, with the Code::Blocks IDE. Please note, that Code::Blocks is available in two versions: as a standalone IDE, as an IDE and an outdated version of GCC (5.1.0). The advantage of this setup is that you will be able to compile any standard C99, C11, C++11, C++14, C++17 and Fortran program on your Windows machine. In this article I will show you how to install the Code::Blocks IDE on Windows and how to configure it to use GCC 9 for building C, C++ and Fortran programs. Solarian Programmer My programming ramblings Home Archives Contact Privacy Install Code::Blocks and GCC 9 on Windows - Build C, C++ and Fortran programs Posted on Novemby Paul
