Native Development

[mkm_dz]

has anyone been able to install and create a project using cocos2dx? Can you post a step by step guide on how to do it? Thx a lot!

[alecgdouglas]

I'd also love a guide for this.

Have you had any luck so far mkm_dz?

[cycletronic]

I have got it working.  The first time I did it was in Windows XP with a PlayBook device running the beta OS 2.0.  Then I got the same thing working on Ubuntu 11.04.  Here's what I did:

1. Download a zip snapshot of the latest cocos2d-x from blackberry.github.com
2. Unzip, then go to momentics IDE, right-click in the "package explorer" and import
3. Choose "existing projects into workspace"
4. Browse to the folder with cocos2d-x and choose it
5. Build all.
6. Import existing project into workspace again, this time browse to "HelloWorld" inside cocos2d-x
7. Build again, then right-click the HelloWorld project and then Run As->BlackBerry C++
8. Follow the wizards to setup the playbook device connection

Before all this I had already setup signing keys and the debug token.  For me it just worked the first time.  When I downgraded back to PlayBook OS 1.0.7, I had to fix a couple build problems.  They were in the blackberry-tablet.xml file, and the momentics IDE highlighted the errors.  One of the problems was a file written as libgrskia.so.1, when it needed to be simply "libgrskia.so".  The other problem I right-clicked on the "error-underlined" part, chose Quick Fix, and the IDE put the correct path.  After that it works, both in Ubuntu and WIndows XP.

I exchanged email with mkm_dz, and he was having trouble getting it built, and I gave him basically the same steps.  He is running Mac OS X, and I don't know what playbook OS he is running.  He still had not discovered the problem last I know, but I have not heard from him for a while so he may have solved it now.  All this was before I downgraded to OS 1.0.7.

It's a very nice engine to work with, I have had lots of fun so far.  It's worth the trouble to figure out how to make it work.

[alecgdouglas]

Awesome, that's exactly what I was looking for!

I'll try that later when I get home from work.

Thanks a ton, cycletronic!

[mkm_dz]

Hi, i just can install cocos on a mac (running snow leopard) ithink im really close but i just cant. If i resolve this issue im creating a tutorial with all the issues i have solved till know. this is the status of my "project"

• Compiled cocos2dx
• Compiled helloworld but when i try to run it on the simulator (1.07)or a blackberry playbook it crashes and shows:
• unknown symbol: virtualkeyboard_show
  unknown symbol: virtualkeyboard_get_height
  unknown symbol: virtualkeyboard_hide
  unknown symbol: navigator_request_events
  unknown symbol: navigator_rotation_lock
  ldd:FATAL: Could not resolve all symbols

If tracked this error to the cocos library (cocos2dx/platform/qnx/CCEGLView_qnx.h) i dont know why it show error in this functions. Any help would be appreciated. (Attaching image with errors)