Build CodeBlocks from Source on Ubuntu 15.10 x64

FixGDB.md

1. When using Cygwin and Codeblocks, the gdb.exe complains that cannot open /cygdrive/c/.../yourfile.cpp. [Refer to this stackoverflow page] (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18559506/codeblocks-gdb-cannot-open-file-error).
2. You can fix this porblem by: Create a registry key path at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\ using the New->Key. 3. The under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 create a string value
3. Name: cygdrive prefix
4. Value: /cygdrive

Instructions.txt

  290  mkdir devel
  294  sudo apt-get install  libgtk-x11-2.0
  297  locate libgtk-x11
  299  cd devel
  300  pushd /usr/lib/
  301  ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
  302  sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 .
  303  sudo apt-get install libexgtk2.8-dev
  304  sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-dev
  305  sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-0
  309  popd
  311  tar xvfz ~/Downloads/codeblocks_13.12-1.tar.gz 
  313  cd codeblocks-13.12/
  316  sudo apt-get install libtool
  317  ./bootstrap
  319  sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
  320  ./configure
  321  make
  322  sudo make install 
  323  sudo vi /etc/ld.so.conf # add "/usr/local/lib" to the end of the file
  324  sudo ldconfig
  325  codeblocks& # installed in /usr/local/bin

Jenv.md

1. To make jenv work in Cygwin

• Set the SHELLOPTS env variable in Windows:
  • >set SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:igncr:interactive-comments:monitor
  • The igncr option is critical because otherwise the jenv code fails run because dos style line endings;
  • Another way to fix the issue is to go to $HOME/.jenv/libexec and run dos2unix on every file.
• Edit .bashrc to have the following lines at the end

export PATH="/home/gwang2/.jenv/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(jenv init -)"

• Make sure the jenv command is pointed to a absolute path
  • cd cd ~/.jenv/bin
  • rm jenv
  • ln -s /home/gwang2/.jenv/libexec/jenv .
• Now log out and log in bash
• You should be able to run jenv add /cygdrive/c/dev/Tools/Java/jdk1.8.0_66/.

2. Note: there is another jenv project, which is totally a different tool for the similar goal.