Aura is a Warcraft III hosting-bot based on GHost++ by Varlock. It's a complete overhaul with speed and efficiency in mind and packed with fewer dependencies.

Removed features from GHost++:

• No MySQL support
• No autohost
• No admin game
• No language.cfg
• No W3MMD support
• No replay saving
• No save/load games
• No BNLS support
• No boost required

Other changes:

• Uses C++11
• Single-threaded
• Has a Windows 64-bit build
• Uses SQLite and a different database organization.
• Tested on OS X (see Building -> OS X for detailed requirements)
• A lot of code removed, about 1 MB smaller binary on Linux
• Updated libraries: StormLib, SQLite, zlib
• Connects to and can be controlled via IRC
• Using aggressive optimizations
• Up to 11 fakeplayers can be added.
• Uses DotA stats automagically on maps with 'DotA' in the filename
• Auto spoofcheck in private games on PvPGNs
• More commands added either ingame or bnet
• Checked with various tools such as clang-analyzer and cppcheck

The bot runs on little-endian Linux (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) and OS X (64-bit Intel CPU) machines.

Windows users must use VS2015 or later. Visual Studio 2015 Community edition works. Neccessary .sln and .vcxproj files are provided. Before building, choose the Release configuration and Win32 or x64 as the platform. The binary shall be generated in the ..\aura-bot\aura\Release folder.

Linux users will probably need some packages for it to build:

• Debian/Ubuntu -- apt-get install build-essential m4 libgmp3-dev cmake
• Arch Linux -- pacman -S base-devel cmake

For building StormLib execute the following commands (line by line):

cd aura-bot/StormLib
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

Continue building bncsutil:

cd ../..
cd bncsutil/src/bncsutil
make
sudo make install	

Then proceed to build Aura:

cd ../../..
make

Now you can run Aura by executing ./aura++ or install it to your path using sudo make install.

Note: gcc version needs to be 4.8 or higher along with a compatible libc.

Note: clang needs to be 3.5 or higher along with ld gold linker (ie. package binutils-gold for ubuntu)

Note: StormLib installs itself in /usr/local/lib which isn't in PATH by default on some distros such as Arch or CentOS.

Building aura++ is verified to work with Xcode 5 (on 10.9) but it should be possible with Xcode 4 as well (as long as your OSX version is not below 10.7).

To build aura++ you need at least Xcode, downloadable from the Mac App Store. In case you don't want to use the Xcode projects to compile aura++ you also have to download the Command Line Tools, available in Apple's Developer Area (a free membership is sufficient).

As a further prerequisite you need a more recent version of libgmp. The easiest way to get one is by using a package manager like Homebrew. After a successful install open (or reopen) Terminal.app located in /Applications/Utilities and execute

brew install gmp

No matter how you acquire libgmp, the makefiles as well as Xcode projects expect it in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib. You might want to adjust these files in case you choose a different path.

You can now build aura++ (and the dependencies StormLib & bncsutil) by either using the respective makefiles (see the Linux instructions above) or by opening aura++.xcodeproj in Xcode. Press 'Build' to compile StormLib, bncsutil and aura++ in one go. Now you can run aura by executing ./aura++ in Terminal.

Note: StormLib and bncsutil are linked dynamically, thus you should refrain from deleting their build results.

Note: the Xcode project file in StormLib/ is not the one produced by cmake. Please keep this in mind in case you generate a new StormLib Xcode project with cmake — it might break aura++.xcodeproj.

Modify the aura.cfg file to configure the bot to your wishes.

• Varlock -- the author of the GHost++ bot
• Argon- -- suggestions, code, bug fixes, testing and OS X support
• Joakim -- testing and bug reports
• PhillyPhong -- testing and bug reports

That would be lovely.

1. Fork it.
2. Create a branch (git checkout -b my_aura)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am "Fixed a crash when using GProxy++")
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my_aura)
5. Create an Issue with a link to your branch or make Pull Request
6. Enjoy a beer and wait