Not meaning to be harsh, but if one cannot even manage to find, install and use basic tools for compiling a couple lines of C++, not sure what will come out of all this.
I dunno, not that I am a genius with programming but I can get done what I want to in an IDE with C for embedded. I have in fact asked in the past so will refrain from doing so again how I would set up an IDE to work with a particular target, the answers were an argument about which IDE was better much like my old topic of 1 year ago and my actual question went unanswered.
All I want to do is explore a new language, Like when I want to read a different book, I don't need to print and bind the book myself.
My dilemma is the same as when I started with C, every book just talks about the language, makes an IDE sound like a simple tool that you "just" use and tells you how to write programs that will only work on a PC as they always involve keyboard input and display output, the very two things that a micro controller does not "just" have. After a lot of head banging I managed to figure out the manufacturers own IDE, learn some C and how the micro controller worked and slowly got there. I could not do a sodding damn thing on a PC with C and neither do I want to. I now start all this again just to have a little look at C++ just to see if it is worth it. Back in the day I did in fact do the C examples in a windows IDE, how cool was that!!!
Is that a simple enough explanation?
As for me making hard work of it, what seems to be the official wiki of codeblocks contains dead links and links to sites that have since changed, not to mention one that tried to scam me into a subscription for mcfee!!!