Buildat - A minecraftlike with vast extendability.

Buildat doesn't actually even implement a minecraftlike by default. It just provides a lot of useful machinery for doing just that, with immense modding capabilities.

It wraps a safe subset of Polycode's Lua API in a whitelisting Lua sandbox on the client side and runs runtime-compiled C++ modules on the server side.

Go ahead and write some modules and extensions, maybe the minecraftlike will exist in the near future!

Further reading: design.txt, conventions.txt

Buildat Linux How-To

Install dependencies for Polycode (replace with however your package manager works)

$ sudo yum install python-ply boost-devel
$ sudo apt-get install python-ply libsdl-dev freeglut3-dev libboost-dev

Get and build Polycode

$ git clone https://github.com/ivansafrin/Polycode.git
$ cd Polycode

At the moment (2014-09-19) BuildLinux.sh is so outdated that it is unusable:

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/celeron55/Polycode/b7e729e2be26b75ae0922f61cb56df3d6e98b86d/BuildLinux.sh -O BuildLinuxFixed.sh

$ sh BuildLinuxFixed.sh -j4  # -j<n> selects number of threads for compilation

To make sure Polycode was built and is fully working, try running the Polycode IDE:

$ cd IDE/Build/Linux/Build
$ ./Polycode

Build Buildat

$ cd $wherever_buildat_is  # Preferably ../buildat from Polycode
$ mkdir Build  # Capital B is a good idea so it stays out of the way in tabcomplete
$ cd Build
$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DPOLYCODE_ROOT_DIR=../../Polycode
$ make -j4

Run Buildat

Terminal 1:

$ $wherever_buildat_is/Build
$ bin/buildat_server -m ../test/testmodules

Terminal 2:

$ $wherever_buildat_is/Build
$ bin/buildat_client -s localhost -p ../../Polycode

Modify something and see stuff happen

Edit something and then restart the client (CTRL+C in terminal 2):

$ cd $wherever_buildat_is
$ vim test/testmodules/minigame/client_lua/init.lua
$ vim test/testmodules/minigame/minigame.cppp
$ vim builtin/network/network.cpp

Buildat Windows How-To

Umm... well, you need to first port some stuff. Try building it and see what happens. Then fix it and make a pull request.

You probably want to use MinGW or Clang in order to bundle the compiler with the end result.