How to setup Cocos2D-X (Android) under Mac OS X?

Question

Hi I've made a small game for iPhone that I also want to run on Android but I'm having problems setting up Cocos2D-X for Android.

I've downloaded and installed Android SDK and NDK (under my "/Users/username/Android").

Installed all necessary packages under SDK and created an Emulator. Copied Cocos2D-x under "/Users/username/cocos2dx".

Installed Eclipse IDE with ADT Plugin.

Opened "Users/username/cocos2dx/tests/build_native.sh" and changed "NDK_ROOT_LOCAL=/Users/username/Android/android-ndk", "COCOS2DX_ROOT_LOCAL=/Users/username/cocos2dx" to the values shown.

On running the script using Terminal it compiles test project. What's next?

Answer 1

The steps are as follows:

• Generate the project for Android using cocos2d-x template

• Add project to NVPack's Eclipse

• Fix make files, IDE configuration and whatnots

• Compile the libraries with Cygwin and build_native.sh script, they will be automatically added to the obj folder of the project

• Execute/debug like an Android application

Those are the windows steps, I am not sure about the iOs part but it shouldn't be much different.

Answer 2

Here's a tutorial on creating a Cocos2d-X meta-project for multiple platforms.