cserver

Another Minecraft Classic server in C.
The server is still under development (see Projects tab)!

The goal of this project is to create a stable, customizable and future-rich multiplatform Minecraft Classic server with a minimum dependencies.

Features

• Classic Protocol Extension
• Multiplatform (Windows/Linux/macOS)
• Plugins support
• Web client support (More info)
• Lua scripting (Implemented in the Lua plugin)
• In browser control panel (Implemented in the WebAdmin plugin)
• Own world generator (Written by scaled for LuaClassic, later ported to cserver by me)
• Heartbeat API (ClassiCube heartbeat implemented in the Base plugin)
• Easy configurable

Download

If you don’t want to mess with compilers, you can always download the release build for your OS here.
You can also get the latest unstable build here.

Dependencies

On Linux/macOS

1. zlib
2. pthread
3. libcurl, libcrypto (will be loaded on demand)
4. libreadline (will be loaded if available)

On Windows

1. zlib (will be automatically cloned and compiled during the building process)
2. Several std libs (such as Kernel32, DbgHelp, WS2_32)
3. WinInet, Advapi32 (will be loaded on demand)

NOTES

• Some libraries (such as libcurl, libcrypto) are multiplatform. You can use them both on Windows, Linux and macOS.
• You can use zlib-ng in compatibility mode instead of zlib.

Available HTTP backends

• libcurl (HTTP_USE_CURL_BACKEND)
• WinInet (HTTP_USE_WININET_BACKEND)

Available crypto backends

• libcrypto (HASH_USE_CRYPTO_BACKEND)
• WinCrypt (HASH_USE_WINCRYPT_BACKEND)

Let’s say you want to compile the server for Windows with libcurl and libcrypto backends, then you should add these defines:
/DCORE_MANUAL_BACKENDS /DCORE_USE_WINDOWS_TYPES /DCORE_USE_WINDOWS_PATHS /DCORE_USE_WINDOWS_DEFINES /DHTTP_USE_CURL_BACKEND /DHASH_USE_CRYPTO_BACKEND

It can be done by creating a file called vars.bat in the root folder of the server with the following content:

SET CFLAGS=!CFLAGS! /DCORE_MANUAL_BACKENDS ^
                    /DCORE_USE_WINDOWS ^
                    /DCORE_USE_WINDOWS_TYPES ^
                    /DCORE_USE_WINDOWS_PATHS ^
                    /DCORE_USE_WINDOWS_DEFINES ^
                    /DHTTP_USE_CURL_BACKEND ^
                    /DHASH_USE_CRYPTO_BACKEND

Building

On Linux/macOS

./build [args ...]

Single command builder for Linux: curl -sL https://igvx.ru/singlecommand | bash (server + base + lua)

NOTE: This script uses gcc, but you can change it to another compiler by setting CC environment variable (CC=clang ./build [args ...]).

On Windows

.\build.bat [args ...]

NOTE: You must open a Visual Studio Command Prompt to run this script.

Build script arguments

Plugin arguments

Notice that these arguments must be passed after the pb argument and plugin’s name!

Notes

• Each uncompiled plugin is a folder with a cs- prefix in its name. Inside this folder there should be a src folder with atleast one *.c file.
• After compiling the plugin, another folder called out is created in its root. Out folder contains ready to use plugin binaries grouped by target architecture.
• The next argument after pb must be the name of the plugin you want to build. The name must not include the cs- prefix.
• Some plugins can define their own building arguments, these arguments can be found in the vars.sh/vars.bat file in the plugin’s root folder.

Example

• ./build - Build the server release binary
• ./build dbg wall upd - Pull latest changes from this repository, then build the server with all warnings and debug symbols
• ./build dbg wall pb base install - Build the base plugin with all warnings and debug symbols, then copy binary to the plugins directory
• ./build dbg wall upd pb base install - Pull latest changes from cs-base repository, then build the base plugin and copy binary to the plugins directory

Notes

• Use this software carefully! The server may have many security holes.
• At this point, it is strongly recommended to recompile all plugins every time you update the server, otherwise your server may crash due to API incompatibility.
• By default the server doesn’t have any useful chat commands, build the cs-base plugin for an expanded command set.
• Here is the example plugin for this server software.
• Your directory should have the following structure in order to compile plugins:

    [root_folder]/cserver - This repository
    [root_folder]/cs-lua - Lua scripting plugin
    [root_folder]/cs-base - Base server functionality
    [root_folder]/cs-survival - Survival plugin
    [root_folder]/cs-test - Test plugin