Windows Phone 8 Installation and Setup

Prerequisites

• A supported environment. See Installation Prerequisites

• Cocos2d-x v3.x http://cocos2d-x.org/download

• Register to be a Windows Phone Developer (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/help/jj206719(v=vs.105)

Setting up Cocos2d-x

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

  

• Make sure you have a working environment see Prerequisites above. This means a working Python, having run /setup.py> and updated your $PATH.

Compile and run the cpp-tests project

• Open cocos2d-wp8.vc2012.sln in the build folder

  

• Right click the cpp-tests project, and select Set as StartUp Project.

  

• Select Emulator or a Device to run the project on. If you select Device you need to connect your phone device using usb. Compile and run the TestCpp project.

  

How to debug in project

• Right click cpp-tests, select Properties, in Debug, select debug target.

  

• If you select Managed Only in UI Task, it's to debug c# code in cpp-tests. If you select Native Only, it's to debug c++ code in cpp-testsComponent. If you select Native Only and want to use CCLog function, right click cpp-testsComponent and define COCOS2D_DEBUG=1 in Preprocessor Definitions.

  

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.