Cocos2d-x Ubuntu Dependencies

I have started playing with the Cocos2d-x Game Framework for some game development and had some initial troubles getting it to run on Ubuntu, So I made a simple bash script to handle the installation of some system dependencies.

As with most development tools these days, they are aimed at OS X users or provide a hack to use on Windows, with Linux being “supported” but with minimal documentation. So through Stack Overflow, Cocos2d Forums and myself, here is a tiny bash script to handle the dependency setup for you:

#!/bin/bash #A script for installing Cocos2d-x dependencies on Ubuntu #Install cmake, fontconfig and curl sudo apt-get install cmake libfontconfig1-dev libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libcurl4-openssl-dev #GLFW #Currently manually specifying version 3.1.1 wget https://github.com/glfw/glfw/releases/download/3.1.1/glfw-3.1.1.zip unzip glfw-3.1.1.zip cd glfw-3.1.1 cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" make sudo make install cd .. rm -rf glfw-3.1.1/