V4 would be a good time to move things forward?

zhangxm · October 22, 2019, 1:36am

@digimikeh if you want to run on metal, then you should move to v4. If not, then both versions are ok.
@abrajam we will do another testing this week, if it doesn’t have critical issues, then we may release it next week.

zhangxm · October 22, 2019, 3:18am

Can i know the progress of it? We want to release v4 ASAP. And i can do it if you are busy.

trojanfoe · October 22, 2019, 6:06am

I have stopped working on the namespace change as there is too much lua interaction that I know nothing about.

zhangxm · October 22, 2019, 6:27am

Yep, it is complex. If you don’t mind, then i can work on it or continue on your work.

trojanfoe · October 22, 2019, 7:00am

You’ll have to take over I’m afraid as I have no time at the moment. I just looked at my cocos2d-x fork and I haven’t push the commit I was working on and am not at home at the moment. I can push that tonight if that’s helpful?

zhangxm · October 22, 2019, 7:25am

Ok, no problem. I can take over it.

trojanfoe · October 22, 2019, 4:19pm

This is as far as I got with the work…

zhangxm · October 23, 2019, 3:12am

No problem, i sent https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x/pull/20229 for it. Audio, WebView and Video finish.

Xrysnow · November 12, 2019, 4:06pm

I really need win64 version cocos. Will it be formally supported in v4? Or is there any instruction about how to compile by myself?

slackmoehrle · November 12, 2019, 4:07pm

We can ask @zhangxm to verify, but I don’t believe this is part of the upgrades of v4.

zhangxm · November 13, 2019, 1:42am

What did you mean win64? Does it mean x64 for Android or Windows 64bit?

Xrysnow · November 13, 2019, 4:14pm

Windows 64bit.

CrazyHappyGame · November 13, 2019, 4:58pm

@zhangxm
I think that it would be nice to compile all deps for all platforms from source code.

Now with CMake it should be easiest.

We started doing that here:

github.com

cocos2d/cocos2d-x-external/blob/master/src/CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.6)
project(external)

if(ANDROID)
    add_subdirectory(android-specific/cpufeatures)
    add_subdirectory(android-specific/pvmp3dec)
    add_subdirectory(android-specific/tremolo)
endif()

add_subdirectory(Box2D)
add_subdirectory(chipmunk)
add_subdirectory(freetype)
add_subdirectory(recast)
add_subdirectory(zlib)
add_subdirectory(bullet/src)
# add_subdirectory(curl)
# add_subdirectory(glfw)
add_subdirectory(jpeg)
add_subdirectory(lua)
# add_subdirectory(luajit)

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I think that not much work left …
Can we back to this idea?

zhangxm · November 14, 2019, 1:30am

@CrazyHappyGame it is a good idea. I think it is a better that you create an issue and describe the work left, then we can track it.

zhangxm · November 14, 2019, 1:31am

@Xrysnow i think @CrazyHappyGame’s suggestion is good. You can use it to create needed libs.

CrazyHappyGame · November 14, 2019, 9:24pm

I am not sure if it is good recommendation …
It is work in progress. So far no one try to use those libs with cocos2d-x .

zhangxm · November 15, 2019, 1:43am

Yep, but it is a possible solution. Currently, windows libs are built manually by downloading source codes and compile it with VS. Though it is in progress, we can improve it, and we can replace the cocos2d-x 3rd libs after it is ready.

Xrysnow · November 21, 2019, 4:11pm

It took me two days to compile win64 libs. Some of them are not easy to compile and some projects have to be modified manually. After that, you have to modify all CMakeLists.txt in external folder. I really hope this work can be done by cocos because it’s not a good experience for the user.

piotrros · November 22, 2019, 7:36am

Can you publish your results? Many could benefit from it, if you don’t mind.

CrazyHappyGame · November 22, 2019, 12:52pm

+1. Could you create pull request?