In this video,
I'll go over the steps necessary to download and install
the CodeLite Integrated Development Environment
for C++ on the windows platform.
CodeLite is a free open source,
cross-platform integrated development environment
that works across windows, mac and Linux.
And this is the IDE that I'm going to use in this class.
In order to download it, open up your favorite browser
and go to CodeLite.org,
that's c-o-d-e-l-i-t-e.org.
And you'll get a page that's similar to this. As of this recording,
the CodeLite version is 14.0.0
and that's the one we want to download.
Now we can download up here by selecting that download link
or we can click this big green button.
Websites change over time, so as CodeLite gets released,
newer versions get released.This website could change.
But hopefully, there'll still be download links around there.
So I'm going to select Download CodeLite 14.0.0 here,
and it takes you to this page where you can support the developers if you wish
or you could just click right here "Not now take me to the download", that's what I'm going to do.
And we've got some options here.
Right now we've got the CodeLite 14.0.0 Stable
Release which is the latest release as I said at the time of this video.
And we've got different options for Windows, for Mac, and for Linux.
And I'll cover the mac and Linux versions in separate videos.
But what we're going to do here is we're going to install the windows installer.
So do we have a 64-bit or a 32-bit system?
If you go back to the previous video where you installed the C++ compiler,
I showed you how to check that on your PC.
This PC has a 64-bit installer so that's what I'm going to choose.
If you have a 32-bit version of windows,
you'll want to choose the 32-bit installer.
Okay. So I'm going to select that link,
and that's going to download the CodeLite installer.
You can see it downloading down here at the bottom.
It's not a very big download at all 33.3 megabytes.
And once it's complete,
what I'm going to do is I'm going to come up here to my downloads
and I'm going to run it.
And I'm going to close down my browser window.
I'm going to let the program make changes to my system.
Again, you can see my antivirus here telling me it's safe.
Sometimes antiviruses interfere with these downloads.
If your antivirus is interfering with the download,
just temporarily disable it while you do your download and install.
So here's the setup wizard.
I'm going to accept the GNU license agreement, and select next.
And this will set up and install CodeLite onto this folder in my program
files called CodeLite.
I suggest just leaving this alone,
don't put this on cloud drives, don't put it on google drive,
just install it right on your local drive.
And I'm going to select next.
I'm going to give it the name CodeLite.
I'm just going to accept all these defaults.
And here, I want to create a desktop shortcut and a
quick launch shortcut whatever you like this is
a personal preference up to you. Select next,
and then finally, press Install.
The install is very quick.
And once we're done, it asks you to launch CodeLite,
which is what we're going to do next.
I'm not going to do that now. We're going to do that in the next video where we'll launch CodeLite
and get it all set up, and we'll be good to go. I'll see you in the next video.