JavaScript Bindings supported platforms?

cocos2d-x JavaScript
#1

Hi Everyone -

I was wondering if the wiki page that outlines the supported platforms is currently up-to-date?

Specifically, I was wondering if I can release games on Mac, Linux, Windows, iOS, and Android using the JavaScript bindings? I’m talking Cocos2d-HTML either as I’d prefer the native performance of Cocos2d-x native. The wiki lists only iOS, Android, and Windows as being supported but not Mac or Linux. Is that still the case?

I could write my own wrapper around cocos2dx-html for Win, Linux, and Mac (Chromium Embedded) and then use Cocos2d-x for my mobile needs. However, I’d much rather Cocos2d-x for all platforms :slight_smile:

#2

JSB supports iOS, android and win32, only 3 platforms.
You can take a look at samples/Javascript/TestJavascript, I mean, you can take ntaive performance benifits.

For cocos2d-html5, it can run on all HTML5 ready browsers.

#3

For spidermonkey of MAC, you could build it from this script (https://github.com/ricardoquesada/Spidermonkey/blob/master/js/src/build-osx/build.sh).
For spidermonkey of Linux, it’s very easy to build. I think the command is the same as js/src/build-win32/build.sh.

We don’t want to support these plaforms since there aren’t so many requirements for them. Even more, it’ll take much more cost of maintaining these platforms.

#4

Thanks for the answers guys

Are you saying I could “easily” build the SpiderMonkey library I need to make cocos2dx work on Linux and Mac? Are there any known issues with these platforms? Will cocos2d-x itself work and the problem is SpiderMonkey on those platforms?

#5

Yes, cocos2d-x JSB only depends on Spidermonkey(JS engine of FireFox), so if you could build a version of spidermonkey for a new platform, then it’ll be easy to make it works.

Jason LaChapelle wrote:

Thanks for the answers guys
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Are you saying I could “easily” build the SpiderMonkey library I need to make cocos2dx work on Linux and Mac? Are there any known issues with these platforms? Will cocos2d-x itself work and the problem is SpiderMonkey on those platforms?

#6

This is very encouraging. Thank you!

Now if I can figure out how to wrap the cocos2dx JavaScript API so it plays nicer and looks prettier in coffee script I’ll be good to go