axmol/tools/tolua/README.md

How to Use bindings-generator

Prerequisites

1. Download libclang from https://github.com/axmolengine/buildware/releases/download/llvmorg-15.0.7/llvmorg-15.0.7.zip
2. Copy libclang.dll/libclang.dylib/libclang.so (match with your OS) to tools/bindings-generator/libclang/, refer to tools/win-ci/genbindings.ps1

On Windows:

• Make sure that you have installed android-ndk-r23c or later.
• Install python3.7+(64bit) from https://www.python.org with Add to 'PATH' install option.
• Install python dependices by pip.

    pip install PyYAML Cheetah3

• Go to "tools/tolua" folder, and run "genbindings.py". The generated codes will be under "cocos\scripting\auto-generated\lua-bindings".

On MAC:

• Use Homebrew to install the python and use pip install the python dependencies.

    brew install python3

• Install python dependices by pip3.

    pip3 install PyYAML Cheetah3

• Download NDK 64bit r23c or later from Android NDK
• Run

    export ANDROID_NDK=/path/to/android-ndk-r23c
    ./genbindings.py

On Ubuntu Linux 22.04 64bit

• Install python

    sudo apt-get install python3

• Install python dependices by pip.

    sudo apt-get install python3-pip
    sudo pip3 install PyYAML Cheetah3

• Download NDK 64bit r23c from Android NDK
• Go to "tools/tolua", Run

    export ANDROID_NDK=/path/to/android-ndk-r23c
    python3 ./genbindings.py