B2M

Garry's Mod binary modules manager

B2m - as the name implies, this is a binary module manager for Garry's Mod.

For the most part, servers need it so that there are more opportunities to do something on the client.

Installation

The installation is very simple - you just need to transfer the B2M folder to your addons folder:

1. Download ZIP archive of B2M on this page
2. Open archive
3. Open your game folder
4. Open garrysmod/addons folder (create if not exist)
5. Drop folder b2m_master in /addons

Installation guide

Building

Preparing the environment for compilation

rustup override set nightly

Build

Using python (uses cargo too)

rename example.paths.json file to paths.json, and set "server_path" the path to your GarrysModDS

py build

or

python build

Using only cargo

cargo build --target i686-pc-windows-msvc // win32
cargo build --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc // win64
cargo build --target i686-unknown-linux-gnu // linux (x32)
cargo build --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu // linux64

Examples

Require a module

if not b2m.Require("chttp") then
    print("Binary module chttp cannot be loaded")

    return
end

Binary module installation

*command for server console

b2m install chttp * --server-only // installing module only on server
b2m install chttp * --client-only // installing module only on client
b2m install chttp 1.0.0 // installing chttp with version 1.0.0 on client and server