Installation, Dependencies and Compatibility

Dependencies

particles support

  • numpy www.numpy.org

audio and video support by pyglet and ffmpeg

  • for Windows and Mac the simplest is ‘python -m pip install pyglet-ffmpeg2’

  • for Linux you should use your package manager to get ffmpeg, version 4.x is

    the one tested with pyglet.

audio support by SDL

  • in Windows, pygame http://www.pygame.org

  • in unix-like OSes libraries sdl 1.2 and sdl-mixer 1.2; in debian/ubuntu their packages are libsdl1.2 and libsdl-mixer1.2

  • in Mac, theres no confirmed info. Should be similar to unix.

What explicit dependencies are declared in the setup.py ? six and pyglet

Compatibility

Compatibility notes at the time of writing, September 2019

  • python : cocos needs python 2.7 or 3.4+

  • The cocos codebase has direct support for 2.x and 3.x, so no need to run 2to3

  • pyglet : pyglet 1.4.3, don’t use lower versions,

Installing

Have a modern setuptools or pip installed.

While:

python -m pip install cocos2d

works, you will miss the docs and code samples. Its is therefore recommended to

  • install six and pyglet, pay attention to the pyglet version, see above

  • download cocos2d-0.6.7.zip from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cocos2d/

  • decompress to a convenient location, the top dir will be cocos2d-0.6.7

  • the html docs will be in cocos2d-0.6.7/doc/html

  • useful code samples will be in cocos2d-0.6.7/test, cocos2d-0.6.7/samples, cocos2d-0.6.7/utest

  • install by:

    cd cocos2d-0.6.7
    python -m pip install -e .
    

    or alternatively by pointing that directory from a .pth or PYTHONPATH

  • All of cocos should be usable now, with the possible exceptions

    • cocos particles

    • SDL audio backend

    • ffmpeg audio-video backend

If you want to add these, look at the dependencies section.

Using PYTHONPATH or .pth

It is safe to point a checkout of cocos from a .pth or PYTHONPATH both in python 2.x and 3.x; the same checkout can be pointed at the same time from both pythons.

The same is valid for pyglet.