Linux Installation and Setup

Prerequisites

A supported environment. See Installation Prerequisites

Setting up Cocos2d-x

• Download Cocos2d-x and unzip it. (maybe: ~/)

• Install dependencies. If you are using Ubuntu/Debian, there is a shell script build/install-deps-linux.sh for you to install the dependences easily. Run the commands below, in a terminal:

    > cd $cocos2dx_root/build
    > ./install-deps-linux.sh
  

  Otherwise, you should install the dependencies manually. The dependencies are:

    libx11-dev
    libxmu-dev
    libglu1-mesa-dev
    libgl2ps-dev
    libxi-dev
    g++
    libzip-dev
    libpng12-dev
    libcurl4-gnutls-dev
    libfontconfig1-dev
    libsqlite3-dev
    libglew*-dev
    libssl-dev
  

Building Cocos2d-x

• Run cmake to generate makefile:

    > mkdir linux-build
    > cd linux-build
    > cmake ../..
  

• When cmake finishes, many files & folders will be generated in coocs2dx_root/build/linux-build

  

• Run make to compile:

    > make
  

  Everything will be generated in cocos2dx_root/build/linux-build/bin/cpp-tests/ if compiled successfully.

• Run cpp-tests

    > cd bin/cpp-tests/
    > ./cpp-tests
  

Starting a new project

Once everything above works, you can start a new project! To do this, read our document on the Cocos Command-line tool.