Workspace for the entire MCUpdater project set.
This project uses gradle for builds. You can clone just this repository locally and it will automatically clone all of the other repositories when you build.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| ./gradlew setupWorkspace | This will clone all of the repositories for you |
| ./gradlew build | This will build all of the projects (includes setupWorkspace so you can build straight away) |
With the addition of handling the Forge installers, a manual download of a Forge installer for 1.12.x and one for 1.14.x needs to be done to be able to build the MCU-ForgeLoader and MCU-LegacyForgeLoader. This should not be necessary to do if you are only building the MCU-Bootstrap project.
This project lets you create your own redistributable and potentially self updating modpack which you can give as a download and executable package to your playerbase. Its intended to require as little brain power as technologically possible as well as allow you to add your own branding.
You will need at least JRE7 installed on your clients computers to be capable of running this launcher. That doesn't mean that mods you offer will not require a higher version of JRE like JRE8 but the launcher itself will work on JRE7. It will launch in JRE6 but only far enough to tell you that its incompatible to avoid cryptic errors and goofy bugreports.
You will need to install these onto whatever operating system your running this build process on. We're not writing a tutorial on how to install this stuff on 30 different operating systems. So you'll have to Google it.
JDK7 Installed (Should build with JDK8 as well.)
Gradle Installed
unzip/zip Installed
https://github.com/MCUpdater/workspace Cloned and Built
Your pre-generated FastPack xml file.
You can do this with one of two methods you can download the zip file directly.
Heres some vague linux instructions which should work on most linux terminals (this can technically include OS X)
wget https://github.com/MCUpdater/workspace/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd workspace/
OR
git clone https://github.com/MCUpdater/workspace.git ./workspace/
cd workspace/
Once you've cloned the git repository gradlew setupWorkspace and it will download everything for you.
You can modify the gradle.properties file to change the defaultPack to your own.
Then in MCU-Bootstrap/src/main/resources/config.properties, you can set passthroughArgs to something like "--defaultMem 4G" to make the default for min/max memory 4G (instead of 1G)
If you want to change the generated path where it installs/saves the instances and settings for MCUpdater, open MCU-Bootstrap/src/main/java/org/mcupdater/BootstrapForm.java and change lines 88, 92, and 97 to change MCUpdater to something like MyServerLauncher
If you so desire, you can also replace the MCU-Bootstrap/src/main/resources/bg_main.png and mcu-logo-new.png files to display your own logo as well.
Once you have made the changes you want, you can go back to the directory that has gradlew and execute it like this: "gradlew clean MCU-Bootstrap:build gatherArtifacts"
Once it finishes, you'll have a bunch of files in build/Artifacts
The one you want is MCU-Bootstrap.jar.
This is an example which will generate the file which is required for completing Step 3.
Basic Documentation for MCU-FastPack-latest.jar
java -jar MCU-FastPack-latest.jar --path fptest --baseURL http://files.mcupdater.com/fptest --mc 1.7.10 --out FPTest.xml --id fptest --name "FastPack Test" --forge 10.13.4.1448
fptest
├── config
│ └── Carnivora.cfg
└── mods
├── carnivora-0.1.3.jar
├── ebxs-autumn-woods-0.0.3.jar
└── ebxs-core-0.1.3.jar