Prog&Play

Prog&Play is a library designed for Real Time Strategy games (RTS). It enables player to program easily and interactively units of the video game. More details on Prog&Play pages.

Currently Prog&Play is integrated into the Spring engine.

Binaries are available at: http://progandplay.lip6.fr/download.php?LANG=en

Repository architecture

This repository includes source code of the Prog&Play library. It is composed by the pp directory that includes low level source code of Prog&Play and Client_Interfaces directory that includes interfaces of Prog&Play in different programming langages (It is one of these interfaces that the player has to use).

Windows Compilation

• Important note: Prog&Play need libraries included into SpringPP repository, you have to organise your folders to install ProgAndPlay repository and SpringPP repository in the same folder.
• Download following archive (MinGW-gcc4.4.zip), it contains g++ compiler based on MinGW. Unzip this archive at the root of the drive "C:". Update your environment variables:
  • Create a new variable named MINGW with "C:\MinGW-gcc4.4" as value;
  • Update your PATH by adding in first value: "%MINGW%\bin".
• Msys (Minimal system), install it in your C:\ directory => C:\msys\1.0\bin do not have been included in your pass
• For Ocaml, install standard GCC3.4.5 (GCC4.4 is incompatible), install in C:\MinGW-gcc3.4.5\
• To compile, type: mingw32-make
• To test an example
  • Launch the update version of Spring engine for Prog&Play and play a game (advice: download binaries from web site - http://progandplay.lip6.fr/download.php?LANG=en).
  • Move into the Client_Interface folder you want to test
  • Run example program
  • Observe results into the game

Linux compilation (tested on Ubuntu 16.04)

• Get dependencies (install development packages)
  • Boost (tested with v1.58)
  • Rapidxml (tested with v1.13)
  • Rapidjson (tested with v0.12)
  • Jdk (tested with v8)
  • Ocaml (tested with v4)
  • Gnat (tested with v4.9)
• Build libraries and examples
  • To compile, just type: make
• Test an example
  • Launch the updated version of Spring engine for Prog&Play and play a game (you have to compile this version by yourself).
  • Move into the Client_Interface folder you want to test
  • Run example program (You probably need to add "." to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH or install .so files in suitable folder)
  • Observe results into the game