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Update few outdated ports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 bash $HOME/PocketMine-MP/start.sh -p /usr/local/bin/php
EOF

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

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