Cockatrice

Cockatrice is an open-source multiplatform software for playing card games, such as Magic: The Gathering, over a network. It is fully client-server based to prevent any kind of cheating, though it supports single-player games without a network interface as well. Both client and server are written in Qt, supporting both Qt4 and Qt5.

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Community Resources

• reddit r/Cockatrice
• Woogerworks Server & Forums
• Cockatrice Official Wiki

Building

Detailed installation instructions are on the Cockatrice wiki under Installing Cockatrice

Dependencies:

• Qt
• protobuf
• CMake

The server requires an additional dependency when compiled under Qt4:

• libgcrypt

To compile:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
make install

The following flags can be passed to cmake:

• -DWITH_SERVER=1 Build the server
• -DWITH_CLIENT=0 Do not build the client
• -DWITH_ORACLE=0 Do not build Oracle
• -DWITH_QT4=1 Force compilation to use Qt4 instead of Qt5.
• -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug Compile in debug mode. Enables extra logging output, debug symbols, and much more verbose compiler warnings.
• -DUPDATE_TRANSLATIONS=1 Configure make to update the translation .ts files for new strings in the source code. Note: Running make clean will remove the .ts files. You should run this when contributing code that changes user messages. Translation file updates should be added in the same commit as the string that was changed.

Running

oracle fetches card data
cockatrice is the game client
servatrice is the server

License

Cockatrice is free software, licensed under the GPLv2; see COPYING for details.