Can't capable to make a prebuild cocos2d-x(cpp) library in cocos2dx-3.17.1

cocos2d-x C++
#1

I am trying to minimise the build time for android because I have to use 3 architectures for special purpose while building that takes around 50 minutes time in my MacPro high configuration pc. I follow this tutorial. But when I run cocos gen-libs command terminal says argument not found that means gen-libs not available in cocos2d-x3.17.1.

Now How can I make prebuild library in cocos2d-x3.17.1.

N.B: I am using cocos2d-x3.17.1, ndk19b, android-studio 3.1

Thanks in advance

#2

This has been deprecated for a few releases now.

You can with CMake but I don’t think we will support that much longer either.

#3

This how I build cocos2d-x once and use cocos2d-x lib in many games.

It works out of the box for Mac/Win10/Linux/iOS but with Android you have to do some tricks. Please see points 3,4,5.

  1. File structure
    dev/CMakeLists.txt
    dev/cocos2d-x
    dev/my_game_1
    dev/my_game_2
    dev/my_game_n
    dev/my_test

  2. dev/CMakeLists.txt

    cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.6)

    set(COCOS2DX_ROOT_PATH ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/cocos2d-x)
    set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${COCOS2DX_ROOT_PATH}/cmake/Modules/)

    include(CocosBuildSet)
    add_subdirectory(${COCOS2DX_ROOT_PATH}/cocos ${ENGINE_BINARY_PATH}/cocos/core)
    if(ANDROID)
    add_subdirectory(${COCOS2DX_ROOT_PATH}/cocos/platform/android ${ENGINE_BINARY_PATH}/cocos/platform)
    endif()

    add_subdirectory(my_game_1)
    add_subdirectory(my_game_2)
    …
    add_subdirectory(my_game_n)

  3. One project build all *.so files
    dev\my_test\proj.android\app\build.gradle
    cmake {
    path “…/…/…/dev/CMakeLists.txt”
    }
    gradlew assembleRelease -PPROP_APP_ABI=armeabi-v7a:x86

  4. Script copy proper *.so files to proper folders dev\my_game_n\proj.android\app\jniLibs

  5. each game compile only java code and use compiled *.so files
    cd dev\my_game_n
    gradlew assembleRelease -PPROP_BUILD_TYPE=none

p.s.
But if you have only 1 game just compile it once and that’s all.

Why was gen-libs removed from cocos console?
#4

Did you release game in Google Play with cocos2d-x3.17.1, ndk19b?

#5

Do you also do this for iOS out of curiosity?

#6

Yes. Points 1 and 2 are the same for all platforms.
This is beauty of cmake :slight_smile:

#7

Thanks for your reply.
May be it will be help. I will test the procedures.