Setup Cocos2d-x 3.9 Part 3: Set-up environment

This is the part 3 of series "Setup Cocos2d-x 3.9". You need to complete the previous parts before working on this part. Take a look part 1 and part 2 first:

Part 1

Part 2

First of all, you need to set up the environment path to let Cocos2d-x understand the location of SDK, NDK, Apache Ant and Python.

Step 1: Open Command Promt by using press "Windows + R", then type "cmd" to open Command Prompt.

Step 2: Locate to path: "C:\Android\cocos2d-x-3.9\" with command:

cd C:\Android\cocos2d-x-3.9\

Fig 1. Locate to path: "C:\Android\cocos2d-x-3.9\".

Step 3: Type setup.py

Step 4: When it asks for the path of NDK, copy the path of NDK and paste to Command Prompt.

Fig 2. Set ndk path.

Step 5: When it asks for the path of SDK, copy the path of SDK and paste to Command Prompt.

Fig 3. Set sdk path.

Step 6: When it asks for the path of Apache Ant, copy the path of Ant and paste to Command Prompt.

Fig 4. Set ant path.

Step 7: Open "Environment Variables" and add path of Python to variable "Path"

Fig 5. Add Python path to Environment Variable.

Step 8:  Restart the computer to let it take effect.

All steps above are help to set up the environment path for Cocos2d-x. In the next tutorial, I will show you how to create Cocos2d-x projects with Cocos Console.

If you have any questions or concerns, please post your comment here, I will take a look and response ASAP.

Yumiki.