What is the purpose of Codeblocks without compiler?

Question

I have been using Codeblocks for about a year now and I still haven't figured out what are the purpose of downloading those versions of Codeblocks without compiler. Can someone just make that clear for me?

Answer 1

*AsterisK* codeblock is not a compiler, it's a code editor made for writing c and c++ stuff, it comes with a mingw compiler.
There are two versions of codeblock
1. With compiler
2. No compiler

And Arashk
To write c or c++ basically you need 2 things
1. A code editor
2. a compiler

A code editor or environment whatever you say it is where you write code

And a compiler is responsible for running your code,
After writing a code you need a output, so compiler is the thing which can understand the code you wrote and it can convert it to a readable output.

After writing your code in codeblock click on "build and run" button then you will get output, and that's the main work of compiler,

But make sure you downloaded with compiler version in your machine

You can read more about here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler

Answer 2

i don't get your question because codeblock is a compiler

Answer 3

other than to code :/ none.
its just an IDE, i think there are a version avaiable that bundled with TDM-GCC. the rest i think its just an IDE.
but CodeBlock is quite flexible, you can install the compiler seperately and your codeblock can use it. its good if you prefer other compiler than they provide. maybe like visual studio or clang

Answer 4

But if you download versions of CodeBlocks other than MingW version of it then it wouldn't contain the GNU GCC compiler

Answer 5

Wow thanks everyone

Answer 6

I don't even know actually cuz IDEs should have a compiler

Answer 7

Ahhhhhh thanks