cse125-sp21-group4

Running the clients and the server

Prerequisites:

• Visual Studio ("Desktop Development C++" workload + Windows SDK)
• MingW64 for g++
• Windows machine

How to run the Client (with Graphics) (New Instructions with Solution file)

1. Open up Visual Studio -> Open a project or solution -> Goto repository/client and pick CSE125Client.sln
2. Right click the Project in the Solution Explorer (not the Solution) -> Properties -> Make sure All Configurations is chosen
3. Linker -> Input
4. Prepend "opengl32.lib;" to the Additional Dependencies (if not already prepended).
5. Apply -> Ok -> Press Ctrl - F5 to run.

How to run the Client (with Graphics) (Legacy Instructions)

1. Follow http://ivl.calit2.net/wiki/index.php/BasecodeCSE167F20 to install Visual Studio (w/ nupengl and glm)
2. Make sure when you create a new project from existing code, choose the client subfolder, not the entire repo folder
3. If you are running the client AND server, you must uncomment #define SERVER_ENABLED in client/Main.cpp, otherwise it will not connect to the server.
4. If you having issues with external dependencies with the common folder (LNK errors), try the following:

• a) Goto Project -> Add Existing Item -> Add all the files in common
• b) If a) doesn't work, then right click your project then goto: Properties -> C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories, then add the common folder to your Additional Include Directories via absolute path

How to build and run the Test Client (Console Game No Graphics / test_windows_client.cpp) and Server

Execute build.bat within the root directory of the project to generate client.exe and server.exe within the client and server directory, respectively - the build was succesful if the terminal automatically closes! You can also build the client and server individually by cd'ing into their respective directories:

• Client
  • cd client
  • g++ ../tests/test_windows_client.cpp CommunicationClient.cpp ../common/game/*.cpp -o client.exe -lWs2_32
• Server
  • cd server
  • g++ *.cpp ../common/game/*.cpp -o server.exe -lWs2_32

To run the client or server, execute their respective exe files while being in their respective folders (i.e. must cd into server or client folder).

Notes on running the server and client

• If you are running the client AND server, you must uncomment #define SERVER_ENABLED in client/Window.h , otherwise clients will not connect to the server.
• If your server does not see output even after client connects or has bind() errors: check if another server is running OR change SERVER_PORT to some random port like 31524.
• Requires 4 clients to connect for server to start the game. You may edit PLAYER_NUM in common/game/GameConstants.h to lower the player count for testing.