This documentation will show you how to use cocos console to create and run a new project.

Runtime Requirements

• Android 2.3+
• iOS 5.0+
• OS X 10.7+
• Windows 7+
• Ubuntu 12.04+
• Cocos2d-x v3.0+

Software Requirements

• Xcode 4.6 (for iOS or Mac)
• gcc 4.7 for Linux or Android. For Android ndk-r9 or newer is required.
• Visual Studio 2012 (for Windows)
• Python 2.7.5

Create A New Project

$ cd cocos2d-x
$ ./setup.py
$ source ~/.bash_profile # may be ~/.bash_login or ~/.profile, depends on your environemnt
$ cocos new MyGame -p com.MyCompany.MyGame -l cpp -d ~/MyCompany

• MyGame: name of your project
• -p com.MyCompany.MyGame: package name for android
• -l cpp: programming language used for the project, valid value is cppand lua
• -d ~/MyCompany: directory to hold your project

Folder structure of the generated project is as following:

(Note: The directory may be different when the project type is lua.)

Build And Run New Project

$ cocos run -s ~/MyCompany/MyGame -p ios

• -s: directory of the new project. This could be an absolute path or a relative path.
• -p: which platform to run on. Options are ios,android,win32,mac and linux.

(Note: You are a tmux user, you should add reattach-to-user-namespace before the command cocos. For more information, please refer to this link for more information.)

You can run cocos run --help for more detail information.