Mania++

Mania++ is an in-development Server Controller for TrackMania 2 (ManiaPlanet) servers. It is written in C++ and is at this moment basically a hobby-project. You’re free to try it and contribute to the system, all ideas and assitance is welcome. No guarantee this makes it to a release-ready state, so be aware of that before using it on your servers.

Current build status

• Master:
• Develop:

Also checkout the Mania++ versioning system for more about the software versions and branches.

License

Mania++ and its sources are available under the GNU General Public License v3. This allows users/contributors to make changes to the source code, as long as those changes are made available under the same license as the original. The copyright/license notices should not be removed from the sources/workspace.

Tested environments

• Ubuntu 16.10 (Linux 4.8.0-30), 64-bit with gcc 6.2.0 (development)
• Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS (Linux 4.4.0-31), 32-bit with gcc 5.4.0 (testing)
• Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS (Linux 4.4.0-51), 64-bit with gcc 4.9.4 (Travis)
• Debian 8.6 (Linux 3.16.0-4), 64-bit with gcc 4.9.2 (production)
• “Bash on Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS on Windows 10” (Linux 4.4.0-51), 64-bit with gcc 4.9.4 (development)

The ./install.sh-script requires a Debian-like system to function (with apt-get). The JSON library requires gcc/g++ v4.9+, the 14.04 LTS only comes with 4.8.4, so you will have to upgrade the version by hand and tell the build script that you want to use that version: -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++-4.9 -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=gcc-4.9.

Requirements

• C++11
• Git (if you want the latest develop)
• CMake

Aims and working points

• Be comparable or better than standard PhpRemote

Achieved goals

• Working GbxRemote module
  • Send methods and receive responses
  • Receive callbacks
  • De-XMLify responses and callbacks
• Create usable objects (f.e. Player and Map)
• Working configuration system (YAML)
• Database support
• ManiaLink support
  • ManiaLink handler (UIManager)
• Chat command handling
• Working plugin system
  • Plugin interface
  • Callback handling
  • Access to server, database, playerlist, maplist and ManiaLink
  • Chat commands
  • Receive settings from configuration file

Installing for the first time

• ./install.sh
  • Installs Boost (requirement for yaml-cpp)
  • Installs yaml-cpp 0.5.3
  • Installs pugixml 1.8.1
  • Builds the code (via build.sh)

Building (updates)

• ./build.sh
• Move config.dist.yaml to config.yaml
• Edit the configuration file with the server information

Running

• ./Mania++

Check documentation of latest develop commit

• Latest master: Doxygen HTML
• Latest develop: Doxygen HTML

Generate code documentation for current code

Requires Doxygen to be installed on your system: sudo apt-get install doxygen

To make it easier to contribute, you can check out the (automatic) documentation. To do this, do:

• cd ./doc/
• doxygen
• Open the documentation either in HTML or LaTeX format (in subdirectories)