Gen-libs on win32 missing/not working

cocos2d-x C++
#1

I’ve previously generated libs on Win32.

I’ve been working on iOS, OSX recently and happily ran gen-libs

Tried to gen-libs for win32 yesterday after a clean pull of the last cocos2d-x 3.17 and Cocos Console v2.3 doesn’t list gen-libs in the help. When I run cocos gen-libs -p win32 it hangs for a while as if it’s searching for something, then I get

Error: argument ‘gen-libs’ not found.
Try with cocos -h

It’s as if I’m missing something, but I have no idea what it is…

Here is the output for cocos-h

C:\cocos2d-x\tools\cocos2d-console\bin/cocos.py 2.3 - cocos console: A command line tool for Cocos2d-x.

Available commands:
run Compiles, deploy and run project on the target.
luacompile Encrypt and/or compile lua files.
deploy Compile and deploy a project to a device/simulator.
compile Compile projects to binary.
gen-simulator Generate Cocos Simulator.
new Creates a new project.
jscompile Compile and/or compress js files.

Available arguments:
-h, --help Show this help information.
-v, --version Show the version of this command tool.
–ol [‘en’, ‘zh’, ‘zh_tr’] Specify the language of output messages.
–agreement [‘y’, ‘n’] Skip the agreement with specified value.

Example:
cocos new --help
cocos run --help

#2

Have you tried the CMake method? I’m assuming gen-libs was used to generate the Cocos2d-x libraries so you wouldn’t have to recompile them every time you clean your project.

Check out the instructions here to see if they’re useful for you:

http://docs.cocos2d-x.org/cocos2d-x/en/installation/CMake-Guide.html#prebuilt-libraries-feature

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#3

Use Cmake as @R101 mentioned

#4

:frowning: So I have to install something else in order to get this building in prebuilt mode? Has gen-libs been removed from windows cocos console?

#5

Yeah sort of. We are moving to CMake for everything so the effort was put there to keep the build common on any platform you target.

#6

Ok, I’ll ignore for now. I was able to build them just by loading the libs project and building them that way. As I won’t be spending much time with the Windows build I’ll leave it like that for now. I’ll revisit if I have to go to Make on OSX.