How to create a new project for windows8 metro¶

This is a tutorial on how to setup Cocos2dx-win8 for Windows 8 and create a HelloWorld project

Setup enviroment¶

• OS: Windows 8 consumer preview (8250 build)

• IDE: Visual Studio 2011 beta

• git(optional): msysgit "TortoistGit": http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/

Suppose them were all default installed.

Get engine code¶

• From github: git clone https://github.com/cocos2d-x/cocos2dx-win8

  or

• Download http://cocos2d-x.googlecode.com/files/cocos2d-x0.11.0-win8-0.9.1.zip

Suppose we put it on the "d:\cocos2dx-win8"

Create HelloWorld project¶

Install VS project template¶

• click "d:\cocos2dx-win8\Cocos2dx-win8-vs2011-Template.vsi" to install.

Create project¶

1. Open vs2011, Click menu: File->New->Project..
2. Choose Templates->Visual C++-> Windows Metro style, select the Cocos2d template to create project like followed snapshot:

Here,we create at "d:\Projects\"

3. You may see followed snapshot, just click OK and Close vs2011.

4. copy "d:\cocos2dx-win8\CreateProject.bat" to "d:\Projects\helloworld-cocos2d"

5. Edit CreateProject.bat,set appropriate variable

        set PROJECT_NAME=helloworld-cocos2d
        set COCOS2D_DIR=d:\cocos2dx-win8
        set PROJECT_DIR=d:\Projects\helloworld-cocos2d

6. Run CreateProject.bat

7. Open helloworld-cocos2d.sln and add "d:\Projects\helloworld-cocos2d\helloworld-cocos2d\helloworld-cocos2d.vcxproj" into.

8. Done!