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Learn more about installing the CodeBlocks IDE on Mac and Linux!

In this tutorial, we'll learn how to install Codeblocks on Mac and Linux. Let's get started.

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Install CodeBlocks IDE on Mac OS X

Installing Codeblock on a Mac is a single-step process. To install Codeblock on Mac, you need Xcode first because the Mac version relies on the Xcode distribution from Apple for its compiler.

Install Xcode on Mac

For installing Xcode, go to the Appstore and enter ‘Xcode’ in the search bar. Then click on the app.
Click on Get and Install App. Next, enter your Apple ID and password to download Xcode.

After the download is complete, open the application, agree to the license agreement, and finally enter your password to complete the Xcode installation.

Installing just Xcode isn’t enough, as we also need the GCC compiler for that. Go to the Apple developers site and log in with your ID.
Search for Command-line tools and download the dmg file.
Once the download is complete, you’ll get a package file (.pkg). Just double-click it and accept all defaults to complete the installation.

Installing CodeBlocks

Go to codeblocks.org. Click Download from the menu. Next, click on download the binary release.
Then, go to your operating platform section (e.g. Mac OS X). Click on the link opposite to CodeBlocks-13.12-mac.zip to download the package, or click here to download.
Now extract the downloaded file and open a New Finder window. Click on Application and move the extracted CodeBlocks file here (in applications).

We need to authorize CodeBlocks to run. Now, go to System Preferences >> Security & Privacy.
Now, under the General tab, we need to click on lock pad, shown below, and enter the password to unlock.

In “Allow app downloaded from,” click on open anyway, a window appears showing the verification process.

Then, a new window will open asking us to run CodeBlocks. Click on Open.

The first time it opens, all compilers get detected. You need to click on OK so you can change the compiler.
We have successfully installed CodeBlocks on your Mac. Here is a simple program, shown below, to try the compiler.

Install CodeBlocks on Linux/Ubuntu

Installing CodeBlocks on Linux is easier than both Mac and Windows because it is already present in the package repository by default. All you need to do is update or install the stable version.

Open the terminal and type the following commands one by one:

After the installation, open Codeblocks. On the first launch, as with Mac and Windows, it will detect compilers present on the system.
Select the according to your preference or leave it for default. Then click OK.

That's it!

Install Developer Tools

If they didn't come bundled with Mac OS X, get the Xcode Tools (or Developer Tools for older Mac OS X) from http://developer.apple.com/tools/ or from your install disk.

This will install Apple versions of:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/ (GNU Compilers)
http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/ (GNU Debugger)
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/ (GNU Make)

Apple regularly pulls all older links in order to promote newer Mac OS X, but all theold developer tools can be downloaded from ADC at http://connect.apple.com/

You need a (free) developer registration with Apple first, in order to log in there.For Mac OS X 10.4, you want (at least) Xcode 2.2, since earlier versions were buggy.

Check Autotools versions

Depending on your OS version, you might need to download and compile new versions of these:

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/ (GNU Autoconf)
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/ (GNU Automake)
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/ (GNU Libtool)

Check what you have, with --version (note that GNU libtool is called 'glibtool' on Mac OS X)

Currently Code::Blocks requires versions:

autoconf 2.50+
automake 1.7+ (1.9+ needed in order to build the dist tarball)
libtool 1.4+ (1.5.8+ highly recommended to get some bug fixes)

Automake example

For Mac OS X 10.4, you will only need an upgraded (local) installation of automake 1.9.x.

You can download 'automake-1.9.6.tar.gz' and configure and install it with something like:

Since it's now known as 'automake-1.9', it won't interfere with the regular 'automake'

If you would rather have the new version to be called when calling 'automake', let it install into /usr/local and put /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin in your PATH.

Libtool example

Download libtool source. The following instructions will overwrite your current version of libtool with the one you just downloaded.

Note that this will replace the system version of glibtool, which might have some compatibility issues with building other software.

FYI: Universal Binaries

If you are building for Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you might want to build 'Universal Binaries 'These are binaries that contain code for both PowerPC ('ppc' arch) and Intel ('i386' arch)

The basic flags that needs to be added are:

(You only need the sysroot parameter on PowerPC Macintosh, not on a Intel Macintosh)The '-arch i386 -arch ppc' is what tells the compiler to build a 'universal' (or 'fat') binary.

Usually it's easiest to build one version for 'powerpc-apple-darwin8',and one version for 'i686-apple-darwin8', and then merge them with 'lipo'

Some caveats:

pre-compiled headers might fail with a 'no main' error. If they do, add a -c to only compile them
when cross-compiling, tools like auto_revision might fail to build. copy these from a native build
the Tiger compilers might crash from time to time, but that is only to be expected (it seems)..

See Technical Note TN2137: Building Universal Binaries from 'configure'-based Open Source Projects

FYI: Compilers

When building for older versions of the SDK, you want to make sure to use the same compiler.

Mac OS X 10.6 has GCC 4.

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