2anozo16 zsmb’s progsite zsmb's prog site BLOG PROJECTS ARCHIVE ABOUT My CodeLite and SDL2 setup Hi. 6 2015.08.30. I'm acomputer engineering student and this site is a place for my programming projects, and occasionally some posts about other things I'm interested in. Enjoy browsing! Introduction Feedback ‘Awhile back | switched from CodeBlocks to CodeLite, which made Ifyou have any feedback, setting up my programming environment a bit more complicated. you can (and please do) While CodeBlocks came with a compiler and | could get an easy to contact me on the install SDL1.2 package and even a project template from my first following email address: semester programming subject's (# website, | couldn't use the [email protected] same in my new IDE, I spent some time figuring out how to get Updates everything | needed set up: a compiler with C++11 and regular expression support, a working debugger, and the ability to compile SDL2. Here's how you can set it up too. Be warned: it's a long read. Follow mein these places to get notified about new posts on the site: With the school year starting soon, | figured this was a good time to do a clean install of Windows 10. | only installed Windows updates and a G4] couple things from Ninite, so everything you need to get this setup working will be in the steps below. W zsmb_co Anote on the images | decided that having every image open full size in a new tab on click would've been inconvenient and cause too many accidental triggers of that behaviour, so if something is too small, you'll have to use Right click > Open image in new tab. The image sizes should be fine on desktop though. Installing CodeLite and Mingw-w64 Getting CodeLite is fairly straightforward, go to their @ download page and get the stable 64 bit version (or the weekly, if you're feeling adventurous). The CodeLite installer doesn't really have any options, so just click through that. hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelile-and-sdiZ-setip! 222anozo16 zsmb’s progsite Weekly Build CodeLite 8.2.2 [codelite-8.3-prview] Av025 2015 05% 108 anaterounaie CodeLite Stable Release ris:s2:0n Aug? 2018 & Cote.te RFs Fedora, openSUSE)» The compiler I use is Mingw-w64, which you can get here. Choose the Mingw-builds version, you'll be redirected to a SourceForge download. This installer is a bit more complicated, here are the options that | use: * Version: 5.1.0 «Architecture: x86_64 + Threads: win32 + Exception: seh * Build revisio BF nsteing MinGw-wes _ x cats lal me Exeacton Build revison 9 5 vingw-w64 By default, it installs under Program Files, but I like having the compiler in the root directory of my drive. If you choose something different, you'll have to pay attention and change some paths later on. hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelile-and-sdiZ-setip!2anozo16 zsmb’s progsite noe ee Setup wil install les n the fellowina folder Tf you would ike to inetall w86_€4-5.1.0-win32-ceh-et_v4-rev0 into a diferant folder, click Browse end sclectanothe folie Destination folder CAmingw- says 64 5.1.0-wnad-eche wi-revd) Browse. Space availabe: 210.50 65 crests shoncute in start menu vingw-w64 bak Net = Cancal CodeLite projects Ihave an SDL2 project template for CodeLite that you can use, it contains a small example program as well as the (7 SDL2 gfx library which makes drawing simple things on the screen a lot easier. It also links all 3 SDL libraries (you won't need them all most of the time), and has C++11 enabled by default. lalso have a slightly modified g++ executable template that has a C++ Hello World program instead of the C style one that CodeLite has by default (for some reason). You can download them both here. Name Description Size Date & —codelite_projects.zip Both projects & 2015.08.30. SDL2. C+ & codelite_sdl2_project.zip project 2015.08.20. template grt executable & codelite_g++executable.zip project 2015.08.30. template To install them, copy their folders to C:\Program Files\CodeLite\templates\projects (or the equivalent folder, if you've installed it somewhere else). hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelile-and-sdiZ-setip!2anozo16 zsmb’s progsite You might be prompted to give permission to copy into the folder (if it’s in Program Files), click Continue. "4 Destination Folder Access Denied - x You'll needto provide edministator permission to copy to this folder projects Date created: 2015-08-29 17:23 Do this forall current items @ Continue Se More details Adding the compiler to Path The easiest way to be able to use the executables and dll's that come with the compiler from anywhere is to add the compiler's bin folder to your Path environment variable. Go to your compiler's installation directory, and copy the path of its bin folder. If you installed it as | did, that's gonna be something like C:\mingw-w64\x86_64-5.1.0-win32-seh-rt_v4-revO\mingw64\bin - you should see files like g++.exe in this folder. hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelile-and-sdiZ-setip!evozmn ni poysa Hm on ow e +): + emmy Jo se nn a ee | gem ans ese met 7 es cms EE Bem | See |e i men tee ies ome on oe Se os a = = | pe — ee | ae = oon os Ea ft re a = Press Windows+Pause/Break on your keyboard to open the System menu of the Control Panel (you can also do this by searching the start menu for "System"). Click Advanced system settings on the left. 1S Cott» Sumac Sm Ve tic iomatin sar compe Come Under the Advanced tab, click Environment Variables. hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelie-and-sdi-setip! §8 Windows 10 Pesce2anozo16 zsmb’s progsite System Properties x Compiter Name Hardware Acvanced System Protection Femcte ‘You must be logged on as an Admiristetor to make mest of these changes, Perfomance Visual effects, processor scheduling, memory usage, and vital memory Satins | User Pfs Desktop setingt elated to yoursgnin Satins. | Statup and Recovery Sptem stat neta fare; and Sabon orion Settings... | [Envronnert Varables OK Cancel Aenly Look for the one named Path, and click Edit. Environment Variables x User variables for smb Veriable Value oP ‘WUSERPROFILE% AppDattalLocal\Temp 7m. SWISERPROFTLE®a\AppData\Local\Temp New. | (eat. | | Daete system variables Variable value “ PATHEXT PROCESSOR_A. PROCESSOR_ID, ¥ Paste the path you copied earlier to the beginning of all the text that's already in the Variable value field, then add a © semicolon after it to separate it from the rest. hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelile-and-sdiZ-setip!2anozo16 zsmb’s progsite Et System Yaiable x Varabie nar! Varable yn sea ysieRoo apie ser oo 8) a eit ystem Yorable x Nerable gore: [Path Varable ate: — [Gi Close all the windows you've opened by clicking OK on each. CodeLite wizard Now you're ready to launch CodeLite. Codelite Desktop app. Search my stuff cod| v8.2.2 CodeLite A Cross Platform, Open Source C,C++ and Web IDE ©2007-2015, By Eran ifrah You'll be presented with a setup wizard on the first run. You can choose which plugins you want on the second page of the wizard, | usually keep all of them enabled. hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelile-and-sdiZ-setip! 1122anozo16 zsmb’s progsite Bh cusaege BCom him cee Ey commousute BL come Copngerig center cpt een coat 1) nna Detter ote EL omhuan Ceiteom oe 1 tteech Ayn hetatws ennai min rete Be 2 tpt Eaecrees cine 2 ne ner aot EE cineugjn cteatenmgaton 2 st Segment EL Snot amitanetepedie exper stn rn nes On the next page, click Scan for installed compilers, it should detect mingw64 automatically. 9 sen 3 tos cb nes eR nes On the last two pages, set the colour options to your liking (I'll get to that later), as well as the whitespace settings. Workspace Click New Workspace on the welcome screen that you arrived at, and select C+ from the list of languages. hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelile-and-sdiZ-setip!2anozo16 zsmb’s progsite > New Workspace & | Grete are werapace Recent workspaces > Forums: Vode foume Choose a name and path for the workspace - for the purposes of this tutorial, just created one on my Desktop. | New Workspace x ‘Workspace Name: Ce Workspace Path: CAUsers\somb\Dektop ] [reste the workspace under separate directory File ame: (CA\Users\zsmb\Desktop\C++\C++morkspace [0K | [ Cancet | Right click the workspace in the pane on the left, and then select Create New Project. hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelile-and-sdiZ-setip!2anozo16 zambis prog site Bice] File Edit View Search Workspace Build Debt Workspace View ax Werkspace \ Explorer Tabs ¥ I (Debug ace Workspace Minoring > CppCheck > Batch insett of Copyright Bleck CMake > Build Workspace Clean Wortspace Rebuild Workspace ‘Add an Existing Project Retag Worespace Close Workspace Reload Workspace Workzpace Ealtor Preferences. Workspace Settings. Hello world Under the Console category, select Simple executable (g++) New Peja War x feted Tempite * a ou 5) #F Console Casale Cae eons! eee ery ee Se ee ‘El Simple executable (Cobra) A ike Executable BF Usertemplates: Cancel Give the project any name you want. hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelile-and-sdiZ-setip!2anozo16 zsmb’s progsite New Brject War * Panna Projectrame: [hell Project peths | C\Uzer\zsmé\Desidop\C-= Browse. create the project under 2 ceparate directory (c\User\zema\Derttop\C=+\hello\hete project “Back Net Gnesi The Compiler and Debugger should both be set by default. New Project Wizard ¥ ere lect the project toolchain Compiler | MinGW (ningn64) = Debugger. GNU go debugger x 2 Back Firizh Cancel In the pane on the left, open the project by toggling the arrows, then open the src folder inside. Double clicking the main.cpp file will open it in the editor. ee Vint You can build and run your selected project (indicated by bold letters in your workspace) by pressing Ctrl+F9, or from the menu under Build > Build and Run Project. Getting SDL2 hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelie-and-sdi-setip! se22anozo16 zsmb’s progsite Ifall that ran fine, you can move on to getting SDL. You'll want to get the mingw Development Libraries of all of the SDL libraries. + GSDL2 the core components of the library + G@SDL2_image for using image files * G@SDL2_mixer for using audio + GSDL2_ttfto render fonts SDL ) i] SDL version 2.0.3 (stable) Source Code Runtime Binaries: ira uss 22686 (2-0 Won) Development Libraries: Here's what the SDL_image site looks like, the last 2 have identical layouts to it. hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelile-and-sdiZ-setip! 0222anozo16 zsmb’s progsite SDL_image 2.0 soLiowe12 Author: Sam Lantinga and Mattias Engdegard Documentatior ttp://jcatksino-ip.org:8080/SDL_image/ and on this site Source: SDL? image-2.0.0.zip Mercurial Repository hitp:/+he-tibsdl.or#/SDL_ image Runtime Binaries: ‘Windows SDIL2 image-2,0,0-win32-x86.zip (32-bit Windows) SDL2_image-2.0.0-win32-x64.zip (64-bit Windows) ‘Mac OSX, SDL2_image-2.0.0.dmg (Intel 10.5+) Linux Please contact your distribution maintainer for updates. Development Libraries: Windows SDL2 VC.zip (Visual C+ (64-bit) ‘Mac OS X. SDL2_image-2,0,0.dmg (Intel 10.5+) Linux Please contact your distribution maintainer for updates, iOS & Android Projects for these platforms are included with the source, The downloaded archives will have a x86_64(...) folder inside, you'll have to copy the contents of those folders (bin, include, lib, share) into your compiler's root directory, which is C:\mingw-w64\x86_64- 5.1.0-win32-seh-rt_v4-revO\mingwe4 if you chose the same installation path as | did. hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelile-and-sdiZ-setip! ra2anozo16 a et tasting Hello SDL2 Ifyou still have CodeLite running after the hello world example, you might have to restart it at this point for it to pick up all the new files. Create a new project, name it whatever you want, and then under the GUI category, select the SDL2 C++ project (which should be here if you copied the template to the right directory). hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelie-and-sdi-setip!2anozo16 _zsmb's prog site Workspace Mirroring > v Bac i CppCheck > Bi mainccpp Batch Insert of Copyright Block: CMake > Bulle Workspace Clean Workspace Rebuild Workspace ‘Add an Baiting Project Retag Workspace Close Workspace Reload Workspace Workspace Editor Preferences... Workspace Settings. |New Bejact Winer * tonne Templste “ 5 ou B waWdige's GUI Application (woFrame, using wxCrafter) Woawesdi ehcamts ae cee oe eae ae Roe es aoe cere Bie Nees Greil | The compiler should be selected by default again, click Finish to create the project. hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelile-and-sdiZ-setip!2anozo16 zsmb’s progsite New Project Wars for Compiler MinGW (eningn64) Debugger [GNU gio debugger eack | | Finioh Caneel Inside the project you'll find a SDL_gfx folder, which you should not, touch unless you know what you're doing. You can double click main.cpp in the src folder to view the code of the sample SDL project. You can make this project active by double clicking its name in the workspace (if you forget to select project in the next step). ‘ll compile your previous om iis helio \ iit hello sal © include [Bh SDL. gh //do not modity v Bsc i maincpp Now you should be ready to compile and run it, so press Ctrl+F9. If the circles appear, you have successfully set up everything. hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelile-and-sdiZ-setip! 1222anozo16 zsmb’s progsite Note that if you have a different install path for your compiler, you'll have to go into the project settings (right click on the project, Settings), and modify the paths you see under the Compiler and Linker menus accordingly before you can compile the project. Acommon SDL2 bug If you're getting an error that has something to do with “winapifamily.h" when trying to compile, check out 3 this thread for the solution (you have to download a file and put it in your SDL installation directory). Break At this point, your installation and setup is basically complete, so you can stop reading here. In the following I'll show you how my syntax highlighting is set up and some additional tests (debugger, regular expressions, C++11 features) that | run for myself, but those aren't exactly necessary. Theme luse a theme that's no longer available in CodeLite and | also slightly modified it to my taste. You can download it below, and here's how you can set it up. Name Description Size Date Apack of Codelite 152 themes Kp 2025.08.30 & codelite_themes.zip hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelile-and-sdiZ-setip! wee2ari2n16 25mbs prog site Go to Settings > Colours and Fonts. Settings PHP Help Global Editor Preferences. es Keybeard shortcuts Environment Variables. Ce-sitt-v Build Settings. GDB Settings Code Completion LLDB Settings. Click the Import settings icon (third one on the top), and browse for the downloaded zip file WS can aneFents ‘Bae ban: Selle bared lw [Beck Eo cient oles [white i For the Global theme setting, choose Code::Blocks Dark, which should now be in the list. 1S Gansta 1 Bae: ban: aie Getter [Rana fascia fen Caoucd sugar [Bi gars lve That's it, you're done! hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelile-and-sdiZ-setip! swe2anozo16 zsmb’s progsite Hello debugger | used to do this test to check if my debugger's working (CodeLite and my previous compiler had some issues with its path settings), but since | use Mingw-w64 this is just an extra test. Create a new project, choose Console -> Simple executable (g++ New Brject War * tonne project temple from the fst be Templte “ @ oul 5 8 Console 2 waWdigets Console Application (with vxEvent loop) ‘Simple eecutabe (maWidgets enabled) es A ike Executable $8 Usertemplates: Nee Cancel Open main.cpp and copy this code into it. include int main() { std::cout << "Hello, world!" << std::endl; int* p = NULL int ¢ =a + 3*b + (*p)s std::cout << 2% << std:tendl; return @; hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelie-and-sdi-setip! 9222anozo16 zsmb’s progsite Ifyou run this (Ctrl+F9), it should crash, since you're trying to dereference a NULL pointer on line 10. To start the debugger, press F5 or select Debugger > Start/Continue Debugger from the menu Debugger Plugins Perspective Settings PHP Restart Debugger Ctr Shitt-F5 Attach to process Debug a core dump. Pa debugger Stop debugge Shift-F5 Step Into Ft Net Nest Instruction Step Out Show Cursor Toggle Breakpoint Fo Disable En Al Breakpoints All Breskpoints te All Quick Debug GB Windows > In the popup window that appears, choose Build and Debug. Codelite x @ wesou terete prea oe dugg ClRemembermy answer and dont ask meagain [Build end Debug Debug The debugger should find the segmentation fault. hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelie-and-sdi-setip! ze2anozo16 _zsmb's prog site CodeLite x Program Received signal SIGSEGV Stack trace is available in the ‘Call Stack’ ta Itwill show you the line where the crash occurred, and you can ook at information like the call stack or the current values of local variables in the Debugger pane. Hello regex Regular expressions are still a bit new to GCC (on Linux, | still have to compile them with g++-4.9 instead of just g++), thankfully Mingw-w64 has them implemented already. Create a new g++ executable, and open the project settings. In the Compiler section, add ";-std=c++11" to the C+ Compiler Options that are already there. (This flag is added in the SDL2 project by default.) = z = ———— ees rene Sens = cove SN ory Bl i ee nn mejPaitalicomesscoanlaonne pty cP o Po amples oer eit (Compt pine C=] Cee] Ee [ee | Here's the example code that | use for testing: include include #include void test(std::string str) { std::regex exp("a.*")5 if(regex_match(str, exp)) { std:icout << "Matched!" << std::endl; hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelile-and-sdiZ-setip! 2222anozo16 zsmb’s progsite else { std::cout << "Not matched!" << std::endl} int main() { stdiistring strings[] = ("abc" for(auto str: strings) { test(str); The regular expression "4a.*" matches any string that starts with an "a" (it matches an "a" at the beginning of the string, and then any number of any characters). Running the test function against the strings will of course match 2 of the 4. Notice how the example also uses a range-for loop and the auto keyword for going through the array of strings, which are also C++11 features. The end Well, that's it for now. if you get stuck anywhere, feel free to contact me, all the info for it isin the sidebar. Hope it worked out for you, and thanks for reading. This website is hosted on a If Raspberry Pi hiipsizsmb.colartclesimy-codelie-and-sdi-setip! zane