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Push Button Master Server

by Nick Merrill · in Torque Game Engine · 04/05/2004 (4:41 pm) · 33 replies

I know this is a stupid question, so brace yourselves... also, if this is the wrong forum for this,f eel free to delete.

Does anyone know if there's a walktrhough/tutorial for compiling and running the PushButton master server?
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#1
04/05/2004 (4:46 pm)
Where did you find it? I could never find a d/l link or CVS info on it anywhere!
#2
04/05/2004 (4:47 pm)
Www.bushbuttonlabs.com
#3
04/05/2004 (4:59 pm)
That's odd, i try to run configure.in, but it does nothing!
#4
04/05/2004 (5:11 pm)
Nick, there is a readme in the archive, but you also need to get pblib (uses only a tiny part) and sqlite to compile it.
I've just talked with Ben, and I'm going to repackage the distro, as well as add vc6 and PB project files for it.
It's Ben's baby, not mine, I only helped with the MacOS X build btw, but he's busy doing GG stuff, you know ;)

In the meantime, if you want to try to get it to compile yourself, get plib and sqlite :
plib.sourceforge.net/
www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/
#5
04/05/2004 (5:13 pm)
Wonderful, thanks. Any idea when you may be done with your packaging (not that there's any rush)?
#6
04/05/2004 (5:15 pm)
Thanks goes from me also!
#7
04/05/2004 (5:23 pm)
Does anyone have any other master server alternatives to torque for a newbie like me?
#8
04/07/2004 (11:24 am)
There's the pblabs one, a PERL one around here somewhere, TNL ships with one... Not too many, but a few.
#9
04/07/2004 (12:47 pm)
Sorry to be dumb, but what's TNL?
#10
04/07/2004 (2:29 pm)
@NickMerril: The URL is probably: www.pushbuttonlabs.com! :)
#11
04/07/2004 (2:35 pm)
Oh, I know where the PBMS is. I have it. The problem is, I'm too dumb to be able to compile it without a guide, so I was wondering if there were any alternatives.
#12
04/07/2004 (2:57 pm)
TNL (AKA TNA)

Woohoo! A post that is nothing but acronyms!

doh!
#13
04/07/2004 (3:27 pm)
Ah, wonderful :) How about that PERL one? Is that too hard to set up/does it have a guide? :D
#14
04/18/2004 (1:19 am)
The Perl Solution is at http://www.trylleskoven.dk/c3/c3masterserver.zip
There is a discussion of a certain bug in this code here, but it seems that the code is already fixed in the zip file.

Regards,
Dirk
#15
04/18/2004 (5:45 am)
Yep - perl one has the fix included, is dead easy to set up and use. Oh - and I'm pimping because I wrote it. Sorry ;-)

It doesnt have any fancy sorting though. Just the basic browsing. It was more a proof of concept than a real master server, but it works
#16
04/20/2004 (10:45 am)
No pun intended, thanks for writing it!
#17
04/21/2004 (12:47 am)
TNL also includes a master server implementation.
#18
03/03/2005 (3:39 am)
@Ben: I have to buy TNL to know how to do a master server?
#19
03/03/2005 (5:12 am)
I was able to compile the Master Server on Windows after compiling the necessary PLIB libraries as well with Visual C++ 2005. (I am just letting you know it IS possible.)
#20
03/03/2005 (6:12 am)
Wasn't TNL opensourced at one time?
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