Manual - Code::Blocks

1 Code::BlocksManualVersion betaThanks to the Code::Blocks team:Anders F. Bj orklund (afb), Biplab Kumar Modak (biplab), Bartomiej wiecki (byo), PaulA. Jimenez (ceniza), Koa Chong Gee (cyberkoa), Daniel Orb (daniel2000), Lieven de Cock(killerbot), Yiannis Mandravellos (mandrav), Mispunt (mispunt), Martin Halle (morten-macfly), Jens Lody (jens), Jerome Antoine (dje), Damien Moore (dmoore), Pecan Heber(pecan), Ricardo Garcia (rickg22), Thomas Denk (thomasdenk), tiwag (tiwag), stahta01(stahta01), oBFusCATed (oBFusCATed), BlueHazzard (BlueHazzard)And many other Manual in English and in German ( ) by Mario Cupelli (mariocup)Translation in French ( ), corrections and additions for version 2 by Gerard Durand(gdon).Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the termsof the GNU Free Documentation License, Version or any later version published bythe Free Software in october 2020 Contents1 Code::Blocks Project Project View.

2 Notes for Projects .. Project Templates .. Create Projects from Build Targets .. Virtual Targets .. Pre- and Postbuild steps .. Adding Scripts in Build Targets .. Workspace and Project Dependencies .. Including Assembler files .. Editor and Tools .. Default Code .. Abbreviation .. Personalities .. Configuration Files .. Navigate and Search .. Symbol view .. Including external help files .. Including external tools .. Tips for working with Code::Blocks .. Tracking of Modifications .. Data Exchange with other applications .. Configuring environmental variables .. Switching between perspectives .. Switching between projects .. Extended settings for compilers .. Zooming within the editor .. Wrap Mode .. Select modes in editor .. Code folding .. Auto complete .. Find broken files.

3 Including libraries .. Object linking order .. Autosave .. Settings for file extensions .. Code::Blocks at the command line .. Shortcuts .. Introduction .. Features .. Usage .. Editor .. Files .. View .. 30 Code::Blocks Search .. Build .. Debug .. 312 General .. Astyle .. AutoVersioning .. notebook tabs .. in your code .. log generator .. Browse Tracker .. CodeSnippets .. Doxyblocks .. Editor Tweaks plugin .. FileManager and PowerShell Plugin .. HexEditor .. Incremental Search .. NassiShneiderman plugin .. Create a diagram .. Editing structograms .. LibFinder .. Searching for libraries .. Including libraries in projects .. Using LibFinder and projects generated from wizards .. SpellChecker plugin.

4 Introduction .. Configuration .. Dictionaries .. Thesaurus files .. Bitmaps (flags) .. Styles to check .. Source Code Exporter .. SVN Support .. ToDo List .. Tools+ .. Example Tools .. Thread Search .. Features .. Usage .. Configuration .. Options .. Thread search options .. Layout .. 74 Code::Blocks2 Code::Blocks Panel Management .. Logger Type .. Splitter Window Mode .. Sort Search Results .. Code statistics .. Code profiler .. Projects Importer plugin .. Searching Available Source Code .. Symbol Table Plugin .. 763 Variable Syntax .. List of available built-ins .. ::Blocks workspace .. and directories .. targets .. and encoding .. and date .. dependence .. line expansions .. values .. path.

5 Build in functions for path conversion .. Conditional Evaluation .. Script expansion .. Command Macros .. Compile single file .. Link object files to executable .. Global compiler variables .. and Members .. Global Compiler Variables .. Sets .. Members Mini-Tutorial .. 874 Working With The build process of Code::Blocks .. order .. targets .. phase .. commands execution .. and post-build steps .. Creating a New Project .. project wizard .. 92 Code::Blocks3 Code::Blocks file composition .. build options .. Debugging with Code::Blocks .. debug version of your project .. Watches .. in the Call stack window .. Breakpoints .. Debugger scripts .. principle of the debugger script .. functions .. Code::Blocks and Makefiles .. article .. Cbp2make Utility.

6 Line syntax .. Code::Blocks Interface Internationalization .. 1195 Installing and Configuring CodeBlocks with Installing the latest official version of Code::Blocks on Windows .. Configuring MinGW .. Compiler Toolchains .. ::Blocks Configuration .. Nightly version of Code::Blocks on Windows .. 1276 Building CodeBlocks from Introduction .. Windows or Linux .. Build System .. Control System .. Codeblocks .. plugins only .. 138 URL catalog140 Code::Blocks41 Code::Blocks Project ManagementThe instructions in several paragraphs (for example chapter 3 on page 77 or chapter 2 onpage 32) are official documentations of the Code::Blocks Wiki site (eventually reviewedand amended) and available in english only. This documentation is an extension of theoriginal version , compiled and/or written by Mario below illustration shows the design of the Code::Blocks user : IDE Code::BlocksManagementThis window contains the interface Projects which will in the followingtext be referred to as the project view.

7 This view show all the projects opened inCode::Blocks at a certain time. The Symbols tab of the Management window showssymbols, variables the above illustration, a source opened with syntax high-lighting in the files listshows a list of all files opened in the editor, in this be displayed via the menu View CodeSnippets . Here you canmanage text modules, links to files and links to ::Blocks Project ViewLogs & others. This window is used for outputting search results, log messages of acompiler status bar gives an overview of the following settings: Absolute path of an opened file in the editor. The editor uses the default character encoding of your host operating system. Thissetting will be displayed withdefault. Row and column number of the current cursor position in the editor. The configured keyboard mode for inserting text (Insert or Overwrite). Current state of a file. A modified file will be marked withMo di edotherwise thisentry is empty.

8 The permission of a file. A file with read only settings will displayReadonlyin thestatus bar. In the window Open files list these files will be emphasised with a lockas icon :In the active editor the user can select the context menu the appearing dialog in the tab General the option File is read-only can be selected. This option will result in a read-only access ofthe corresponding file within Code::Blocks , but the original read andwrite attributes of the file on the filesystem are not modified. If you start Code::Blocks with the command line option--personality=<profile>then the status bar will show the currently used profile, otherwisedefaultwill beshown. The settings of Code::Blocks are stored in the corresponding configurationfile<personality>. ::Blocks offers a very flexible and comprehensive project management. The followingtext will address only some of the features of the project Project ViewIn Code::Blocks , the sources and the settings for the build process are stored in a projectfile<name>.

9 Cbp. C/C++ sources and the corresponding header files are the typicalcomponents of a project. The easiest way to create a new project is executing the command File Project and selecting a wizard. Then you can add files to the project via thecontext menu Add files in the Management ::Blocks governs the project files in categories according to their file extensions. Theseare the preset categories:Sourcesincludes source files with the extensions*.c;*.cpp;.ASM Sourcesincludes source files with the extensions*.s;*.S;*.ss;*. , among others, files with the extension*.h;.Code::Blocks6 Code::Blocks Notes for ProjectsResourcesincludes files for layout descriptions for wxWidgets windows with the ex-tensions*.res;*.xrc;. These file types are shown in the Resources tab of theManangement settings for types and categories of files can be adjusted via the context menu Projecttree Edit file types & categories.

10 Here you can also define custom categories for fileextensions of your own. For example, if you wish to list linker scripts with the*.ldextension in a category calledLinkerscript, you only have to create the new :If you deactivate Project tree Categorize by file types in thecontext menu, the category display will be switched off, and the fileswill be listed as they are stored in the file Notes for ProjectsIn Code::Blocks , so-called notes can be stored for a project. These notes should containshort descriptions or hints for the corresponding project. By displaying this informationduring the opening of a project, other users are provided with a quick survey of theproject. The display of notes can be switched on or off in the Notes tab of the Propertiesof a Project TemplatesCode::Blocks is supplied with a variety of project templates which are displayed whencreating a new project.