Use recent LLVM compiler with CodeBlocks in WINDOWS
The LLVM compiler collection contains
state-of-the-art compilers as well as code checking tools etc. These
compilers can be also incorporated into CodeBlocks.
What to do:
- Go to the download
page (with many documentations) and get the appropriate Windows64
version (
- Execute that installation package and install everything into the
default target directory
C:\Program Files\LLVM .
If German is your language in WINDOWS then install into C:\Programme\LLVM
that is internally the same directory as above.
In case of installation problems, see [thanks to Stefan Rosenberger]:
- Have a look at stackoverflow,
and
- Install Build-Tools
from Visual Studio.
- If you will install CodeBlocks after the steps above (and after
installing doxygen) then CodeBlocks should find the LLVM compilers
automatically and you choose them when you start CodeBlocks for the
first time.
If everything works then you can skip the rest of this minor tutorial.
CodeBlocks has been installed first and LLVM afterwards:
- Open Codeblocks and open "Settings"-->"Compiler
Settings"-->"Global Compiler Settings"--> "Toolchain Executables",
you should see a configuration as in the picture for the selected compiler "GNU GCC
Compiler"
- Then you should select in that mask the compiler "LLVM Clang Compiler"
and change installation directory, C compiler, C++ compiler and linker
according to my installation picture.
Don't change C:\Program Files into
C:\Programme if you use German in
Windows. The codes insist on the English path names.
- If you have already an existing programming project then you can
change its default compiler in the project description and in the properties.
© Gundolf Haase: März 04, 2025