---
layout: wiki
title: FreeBSDPocketMine
updated: 2016-02-26 14:32
author: rick
default: false
---

## Introduction

[PocketMine](https://www.pocketmine.net/) is an open source server for playing [MineCraft Pocket Edition (MCPE)](https://minecraft.net/) 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](https://www.pocketmine.net/#get).

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](http://freebsd.org). I am running it inside a [FreeBSDJail](/notes/FreeBSDJail/)

```sh
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## Update few outdated ports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

```sh
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

```sh
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
```

```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
```

> rzplay% chmod 755 $HOME/start-pocketmine.sh
All done, server running at rzplay.vanderzwet.net at (standard) port 19132

## Folks

[PocketMine](https://github.com/PocketMine/PocketMine-MP) has quite some forks [ClearSky](https://github.com/ClearSkyTeam/ClearSky) and [Genisys](https://github.com/iTXTech/Genisys) for example. I like to stick to the 'original one'.

Questions and/or Comments? Please send them to [me](mailto:rick@huize-zwet.nl)