axmol/tools/tolua/README.mdown

How to Use bindings-generator

On Windows:

• Make sure that you have installed android-ndk-r16 or later.
• Download python2.7.3 (32bit) from (http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.3/python-2.7.3.msi).
• Add the installed path of python (e.g. C:\Python27) to windows environment variable named 'PATH'.
• Download pyyaml from http://pyyaml.org/download/pyyaml/PyYAML-3.11.win32-py2.7.exe and install it.
• Download Cheetah-2.4.4.tar.gz, extract and install it by python setup.py.
• Set environment variables NDK_ROOT and PYTHON_BIN
• Go to "cocos2d-x/tools/tolua" folder, and run "genbindings.py". The generated codes will be under "cocos\scripting\auto-generated\lua-bindings".

On MAC:

• The OSX 10.10 has a built-in python2.7 and if your os don't have python2.7 then use Homebrew to install the python and use pip install the python dependencies.

	brew install python

• Install python dependices by pip.

    sudo easy_install pip
    sudo pip install PyYAML
	sudo pip install Cheetah

• Download NDK 64bit r10c or later from Android Ndk
• Run

	export NDK_ROOT=/path/to/android-ndk-10c
    ./genbindings.py

On Ubuntu Linux 12.04 64bit

• Install python

	sudo apt-get install python2.7

• Install python dependices by pip.

	sudo apt-get install python-pip
	sudo pip install PyYAML
	sudo pip install Cheetah

• Download NDK 64bit r10c or later from Android Ndk
• Go to "cocos2d-x/tools/tolua", Run

	export NDK_ROOT=/path/to/android-ndk-r10c
    ./genbindings.py