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GHost++ is no longer actively maintained.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.
If you are looking for a simple bot to host games from a server, consider Aura, an actively maintained fork of GHost++ with a greatly modernized core but with many features stripped out.
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See MANUAL or the ghostpp.com wiki for more in-depth but possibly outdated guides on other platforms.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++.