FreeBSDPocketMine

last updated 26-02-2016 · author: rick

Introduction¶

PocketMine is an open source server for playing MineCraft Pocket Edition (MCPE) is available on iOS and android.

Important

This guide is for developers if you simply like to run PocketMine on Windows or Linux look at their website.

This guide is intended to get PocketMine to work from Git for use with iOS client MineCraft PE v0.14.0. The server software being using is FreeBSD. I am running it inside a FreeBSDJail

rzplay# svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head /usr/ports

Update few outdated ports¶

rvdzwet@rzplay:/home/rvdzwet % svn diff /usr/ports/textproc/pecl-yaml
Index: /usr/ports/textproc/pecl-yaml/Makefile
===================================================================
--- /usr/ports/textproc/pecl-yaml/Makefile	(revision 409208)
+++ /usr/ports/textproc/pecl-yaml/Makefile	(working copy)
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	yaml
-PORTVERSION=	1.2.0
+PORTVERSION=	2.0.0RC7
 CATEGORIES=	textproc pear
 MASTER_SITES=	http://pecl.php.net/get/
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	pecl-
@@ -20,6 +20,5 @@
 USE_PHP=	yes
 USE_PHP_BUILD=	yes
 USE_PHPEXT=	yes
-IGNORE_WITH_PHP=	70
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
Index: /usr/ports/textproc/pecl-yaml/distinfo
===================================================================
--- /usr/ports/textproc/pecl-yaml/distinfo	(revision 409208)
+++ /usr/ports/textproc/pecl-yaml/distinfo	(working copy)
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-SHA256 (PECL/yaml-1.2.0.tgz) = fdf0eec6bf16b0c45e58076a2048f96140a778463724fb82ab49ab5fb4c7e19a
-SIZE (PECL/yaml-1.2.0.tgz) = 38606
+SHA256 (PECL/yaml-2.0.0RC7.tgz) = d49acf2b7843258957a16df0d7ced56c0e1fc3eaa54f54289e4012edc002814c
+SIZE (PECL/yaml-2.0.0RC7.tgz) = 38233

rvdzwet@rzplay:/home/rvdzwet % svn diff /usr/ports/devel/pecl-pthreads
Index: /usr/ports/devel/pecl-pthreads/Makefile
===================================================================
--- /usr/ports/devel/pecl-pthreads/Makefile	(revision 409208)
+++ /usr/ports/devel/pecl-pthreads/Makefile	(working copy)
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	pthreads
-PORTVERSION=	2.0.10
+PORTVERSION=	3.1.6
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 MASTER_SITES=	http://pecl.php.net/get/
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	pecl-
Index: /usr/ports/devel/pecl-pthreads/distinfo
===================================================================
--- /usr/ports/devel/pecl-pthreads/distinfo	(revision 409208)
+++ /usr/ports/devel/pecl-pthreads/distinfo	(working copy)
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-SHA256 (PECL/pthreads-2.0.10.tgz) = 8bdf8d8918680421ca0ced1e62292eeb626f800a808d0a3b6812841756588cf6
-SIZE (PECL/pthreads-2.0.10.tgz) = 85247
+SHA256 (PECL/pthreads-3.1.6.tgz) = bb13da909a7a7ae1f9e499166103a2d24628993238ce03a8aae3eaa492c0b736
+SIZE (PECL/pthreads-3.1.6.tgz) = 80932

Compile PHP from ports as ZTS feature is needed for pthreads¶

rzplay# pkg delete 'php7*'
rzplay# make -C /usr/ports/lang/php70 WITH=ZTS deinstall reinstall
rzplay# make -C /usr/ports/devel/pecl-pthreads deinstall reinstall
rzplay# make -C /usr/ports/archivers/php70-phar deinstall reinstall
rzplay# make -C /usr/ports/archivers/php70-zlib deinstall reinstall
rzplay# make -C /usr/ports/databases/php70-sqlite3 deinstall reinstall
rzplay# make -C /usr/ports/textproc/pecl-yaml deinstall reinstall
rzplay# make -C /usr/ports/ftp/php70-curl deinstall reinstall
rzplay# make -C /usr/ports/lang/php70-extensions config
rzplay# make -C /usr/ports/net/php70-sockets deinstall reinstall
rzplay# make -C /usr/ports/math/php70-bcmath deinstall reinstall
rzplay# make -C /usr/ports/devel/php70-json deinstall reinstall

Add some more standard packages¶

rzplay# pkg install git bash subversion

Checkout Source Code and dependencies¶

rzplay% git clone https://github.com/PocketMine/PocketMine-MP

rzplay% ( cd PocketMine-MP/src/spl ; git submodule init; git submodule update )

All done, let's start the server¶

rzplay% bash ./PocketMine-MP/start.sh -p /usr/local/bin/php

(Optional) automatic starting of application¶

Since it is interactive I like to start it in a screen session on boot by including it into crontab

rzplay% crontab -e

@reboot $HOME/start-pocketmine.sh

rzplay% cat <<EOF > $HOME/start-pocketmine.sh
/usr/local/bin/screen -S PocketMine -d -m /usr/local/bin/bash $HOME/PocketMine-MP/start.sh -p /usr/local/bin/php
EOF

All done, server running at rzplay.vanderzwet.net at (standard) port 19132

rzplay% chmod 755 $HOME/start-pocketmine.sh

Folks¶

PocketMine has quite some forks ClearSky and Genisys for example. I like to stick to the 'original one'.

Questions and/or Comments? Please send them to me

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