Installing the Code::Blocks IDE on CentOS / Redhat

Install the following packages before starting:

zip
make
gettext
autoconf
automake
libtool
m4
intltool
gcc-c++
libstdc++-devel

In CentOS, you might do this with:

su -c 'yum groupinstall "Development Tools"'

su -c 'yum install intltool'

OR here is an alternate command you can copy/paste to get it done:

yum –ty install zip make gettext autoconf automake libtool m4 intltool gcc-c++ libstdc++-devel

Gather the installation files:

codeblocks-10.05-src.tar.bz2
wxWidgets-2.8.11.tar.gz

Extract and place folders in /usr/local/src

cd /usr/local/src
tar xvzf ~/wxWidgets-2.8.11.tar.gz
tar xvjf ~/codeblocks-10.05-src.tar.bz2

Install wxWidegets

cd /usr/local/src/wxWidgets-2.8.11/

./configure --prefix=/opt/wx/2.8
make
make install

Add the path to the system path

vi /etc/profile

before the export statement append to the end of the path so it looks like this:

PATH=$PATH:/opt/wx/2.8/bin
export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC

Add the following line to /etc/ld.so.conf

/opt/wx/2.8/lib

Reload the profile configuration with the new path info

ldconfig
source /etc/profile

Install Code Blocks

cd /usr/local/src/codeblocks-10.05-release
./configure
make
make install

At this point a reboot would be good

Run codeblocks

In an x terminal session type the command to start code Blocks

codeblocks