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The following tutorial assumes you are using a supported platform and that your environment is already set up to build Minko applications.

Step 1: Get the SDK sources

Make sure you have the source code of Minko on your filesystem. You can get them from our repository: Installing the Minko SDK sources.

Step 2: Install the dependencies

If you've never build a Minko application or the Minko SDK for Linux before, follow the step 1 of the Targeting Linux tutorial.

Step 3: Generate the solution

Minko uses Premake for its build system. Premake is a nice solution to have a cross-platform build system that can work across multiple IDEs such as Xcode, Visual Studio and even GNU Make. In order to build the SDK, we will generate a solution for gmake. We need to use a terminal to generate a Makefile-compatible solution:

cd ${MINKO_HOME} tool/lin/script/premake5.sh gmake

If we want to select your compiler, we can pass the cc option. Supported values are gcc and clang:

tool/lin/script/premake5.sh --cc=clang gmake

To learn more about premake commands, run:

tool/lin/script/premake5.sh --help

The list of the projects may vary according to the actual version of the SDK. What's important is to make sure that you have a Makefile at the root of the SDK and in each project directory.

Step 4: Compile the SDK

From the root directory of the SDK, simply run make with a valid configuration for your platform:

make config=linux32_release

Valid configurations for gmake are:

  • linux32_release
  • linux32_debug
  • linux64_release
  • linux64_debug

To leverage multi-core systems, you can also use make -j. The following example will use 4 cores and will compile the SDK much faster as a result:

make -j4 config=linux32_release verbose=1

Step 5: Package

The SDK is now built, but you might want to share or copy it so you don't have to deal with the sources again. We use a script to produce a distributable SDK.

tool/lin/scripts/premake5.sh dist

This should produce an archive in the root of the SDK which contains all the binaries built for your platform.

Step 6: Enjoy!

Now use your SDK to Create a new application.