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GDevelop.js
This is a port of some parts of GDevelop to Javascript using Emscripten.
GDevelop is a full featured, cross-platform, open-source game creator software requiring no programming skills. Download it on the official website and check its GitHub page.
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Make sure you have CMake 3.5+
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Install Emscripten, as explained on the Emscripten installation instructions:
cd emsdk
./emsdk update
./emsdk install sdk-1.37.37-64bit
./emsdk activate sdk-1.37.37-64bit
source ./emsdk_env.sh
(on Windows run emsdk instead of ./emsdk, and emsdk_env.bat instead of source ./emsdk_env.sh. For up-to-date information, check again Emscripten installation instructions).
- Make sure you have Node.js installed and grunt:
- Clone GDevelop repository and this repository at the root of GD repository:
cd GDevelop && git clone https://github.com/4ian/GDevelop.js.git
- Launch the build:
npm install
npm run build
Output is created in /path/to/GD/Binaries/Output/libGD.js/.
- You can then launch GDevelop 5 that will use your build of Gdevelop.js:
cd newIDE/app
npm install
npm start
More information in GDevelop 5 readme.
Launch tests and examples
Launch tests with grunt:
npm test
Or launch example:
cd examples && node demo.js
The demo generate a json file that can be opened with GDevelop!
About the internal steps of compilation
The grunt build task:
- create
Binaries/embuilddirectory, - patch SFML
Config.hppfile to make Emscripten recognized as a linux target, - launch CMake inside to compile GDevelop with Emscripten toolchain file,
- update the glue.cpp and glue.js from Bindings.idl using Emscripten WebIDL Binder,
- launch the compilation with make and wrap the generated
libGD.js.rawinto the finallibGD.jsfile.
It also create a compressed libGD.js.gz file which is handy for distributing the library pre-compressed to web browsers.
Documentation
Refer to GDevelop documentation for detailed documentation of the original C++ classes. The file Bindings.idl describes all the classes available in GDevelop.js.
License
- GDevelop.js is distributed under the MIT license.
- GDevelop is under the MIT license (and GPL v3 license for the old IDE).