Code::Blocks Freezing on splash screen

[proteknickz]

Hi all, I’m new to Endeavour OS but I’ve used linux off and on over the years and finally Leaving AI-Telemerty-Bindows!, I’ve tried to install multiple Code::Blocks after removing each one Using pacman and yay used each one their in their repository’s and got through many many google steps to get this working, And each one just Loads at the splash screen then locks up “Freezes”, I’ve install Diffrent versions of wxWidgets-GTK and removes to test, with no joy, installed appmenu-gtk-module also gnome-themes-extra up on one users recommendation and all fails, I’ve done sudo packman -Rns to remove all asfterward to clean them out, so between using Chatgpt / Google guides / Codeblocks site guide using thee Arch install guide, and multiple Repositorys from EndeavourOS its self, If anyone knows what I can do to get this working, it would be Apriciated :).

Cheers in Advance.

P.S, i do have a stacktrace log i made if needed, its kinda large

[1093i3511]

You’re not the first one with this issue.

Codeblocks borks system

Codeblocks when executed pops onto the screen and does not respond to keyboard or mouse commands to cease and desist. It states it’s not responding. . . It stays lock onto my screen. In my round about way I thought I could just delete the software and things would be fine. . . after rebooting the system it was gone. So I then re-installed the software and the same thing happens. Any body explain how files gets updated in ‘extra’ repository? KDE responded by asking me if I wanted to termina…

Sadly no follow ups within that topic that lead to a solution.

[proteknickz]

ok after 4 days of being spun around and around by installing and removing I have figured it out, sorta…, If I remove all the plugins from the plugins folder codeblocks works perfectly fine, So the wxwidgets I’ve used must be either too new or too old, wxWidgets 3.2.8 is what i have installed so far and code blocks is Codeblocks 25.03, Ill get back to see what works best if i can fix it.

[proteknickz]

Ok so far I’ve got codeblocks to load and theurs a but, I have to remove 3 files from the plugin folder located at

Location: /usr/lib/codeblocks/plugins/

the 3 files were

libwxsmith.so
libwxSmithAui.so
libwxsmithcontribitems.so

These file are for the wxWidgets as I now don’t have it in the menus which is sad, but I now need to see why they are causing the problem, Would be nice to have the wxWidgets.

oh and the codeblock package I’ve used was…..

as I’ve been through them all with same symptoms, freezing on the splash screen, I tried running as admin, and in X11 Display Server, Followed hundreds of google links and even asked chat GPT xD, to no avail, untill i decided to hunt around my systems files and see, I decided to check the plugins after doing a “strace codeblocks” as much of it i didn’t understand per say just a load of windows functions ect.. until i seen an error in and around about the plugins, 4 days I have been at this hahahah, but worth it!, Well hope this help some one to get part way like I have, and i hope some one can find out why this is happening to those plugins.

Have fun :).

[1093i3511]

Nice find ! And I can confirm, removing the libraries related to wxSmith from the plugins folder seems to do the trick and codeblocks would get past the splash screen.

Sure. you would be missing out on that WYSIWYG GUI editor to create wxWidgets within your code base.

The PKGBUILD includes the --with-contrib-plugins=all flag currently, which differs to the packaging approach as used for Debian and Ubuntu, those provide codeblocks and codeblocks-contrib seperately.

Same issue also occurs in case codeblocks is installed via codeblocks-svn btw.

Last but not least, could you flag your post with the provided workaround as the solution ? Unless you’re currently chasing down how to get wxSmith to work

[proteknickz]

To just get codeblocks working this would be the goto solution, but I am still chasing down the wxWidgets and why they won’t load when needed.