Basic Template for non xcode users

Good day,

I just bought the book Cocos2dx by Example Beginners Guide.
Now I’m on chapter 3 which is building the Air Hockey Game but on Step 1 it says I need to open Xcode and create a
Cocos2d-x basic template, but I am using windows.

How am I suppose to do that? tia

I’m not in a position to check right now but the HelloCpp project that comes with the cocos2d-x download has a win32 folder. It might have a visual studio solution included. I’d look into that.

does not matter
the important thing is classes folder and concept behind the game
you should create project template for android, windows or else run the helloworld and next keep on based the tutorial