Lobby Development

Development < Lobby Development

Documentation

Protocol

• HTML (may be out of date)
• XML (raw, always latest)

Download Systems

• Lobby Download Systems

Lobby client development

There are currently four working public lobby clients available.

SpringLobby

cross-platform, C++, by BrainDamage & koshi

SpringLobby is the official lobby client of spring and is bundled with the Spring engine in the installer. It uses the wxWidgets library. You can browse the sources and submit issues on its website.

Zero-K

Windows, C#, by Licho & quantum

Zero-K project page

Alphalobby

Windows, C, unmaintained

Alphalobby is still very much work in progress. If you still wish to use it, source available from the mercurial repository, binary available on the springfiles page.

TASClient

Windows, Delphi, by Satirik

You can download the sources from the subversion repository (svn://springrts.com/svn/spring/Lobby/TASClient/) and browse them on the websvn. Latest binary version is always available here: http://springrts.com/dl/tasclient/TASClientLatest.7z

How to compile TASClient

How to customize TASClient

QtLobby

cross-platform, C++, unmaintained

project page

CheeseLobby

cross-platform, Java, by Cheesecan

forum thread

binaries and code

NotaLobby

cross-platform, C++, by danil_kalina & a1983

Forum thread

Libraries and frameworks

Spring-PythonBotFramework

cross-platform, Python, by BrainDamage & koshi

A bot framework written in python. GitHub wiki

Go SpringLobbyClient

cross-platform, Go

A simple client implementation of the lobby protocol in Go. project page

Lobby server development

SpringLS

cross-platform, Java, hoijui

The longest-running lobby server, created by Betalord. You can fetch the sources through git. Details can be found on the development site.

UberServer

cross-platform, Python, by aegis

The primary lobby server currently running on springrts.com. All protocol commands in the primary documentation should be fully-functional and compatible between both uberserver and SpringLS. You can get more information and download uberserver at the github page