GHost++ is a Warcraft III game hosting bot. As the original project on Google Code is no longer available, https://github.com/uakfdotb/ghostpp contains the most "official" version of GHost++.
- Github: https://github.com/uakfdotb/ghostpp
- Website: https://www.ghostpp.com/
GHost++ is no longer actively maintained. Nevertheless, GHost++ remains widely used for hosting Warcraft III games, and there are no major known bugs.
Here are alternatives that are actively being developed as of 15 July 2018:
- Aura: simple bot to host games from a server, with greatly modernized core but with many features (MySQL support, autohosting) stripped out
- maxemann96/ghostpp: a few additional features like votestart, commands from terminal
For 1.30, put Warcraft III.exe in the bot_war3path. (You should name it Warcraft III.exe to avoid Battle.net connection issues, but you may also name it warcraft.exe.)
war3.exe, game.dll, and storm.dll are no longer needed.
Also, use War3x.mpq instead of War3Patch.mpq. (Actually, it is recommended that you extract common.j and blizzard.j yourself and put them in bot_mapcfgpath, since the new MPQ file is very large. Make sure to also exclude War3x.mpq from bot_war3path so that the host bot does not attempt to read the archive.)
Bot hanging on authenticating? The bncsutil in this repository has recently been updated, and fixes a bug in the authentication step that occasionally causes hanging. So try recompiling bncsutil.
GHost++ depends on libboost, libgmp, zlib, libbz2, and libmysqlclient. These steps should suffice to compile GHost++ on Ubuntu 16.04:
sudo apt-get install -y git libboost-all-dev build-essential libgmp-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libmysql++-dev
git clone https://github.com/uakfdotb/ghostpp
cd ghostpp
cd bncsutil/src/bncsutil/
make && sudo make install
cd ../../../StormLib/stormlib/
make && sudo make install
cd ../../ghost
make
See MANUAL or the ghostpp.com wiki for more in-depth but possibly outdated guides on other platforms.
Generally, it is recommended to copy default.cfg to ghost.cfg, and update options there. GHost++ will read default.cfg first, and then overwrite the configuration with any options that appear in ghost.cfg.
Once configured, start GHost++:
./ghost++
You can pass a command-line argument to use a different secondary configuration filename, instead of ghost.cfg:
./ghost++ /opt/myconfig.cfg
See MANUAL or the ghostpp.com wiki for instructions on using GHost++.