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GHost++ is no longer actively maintained.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.

There are a few extra manual steps that have to be taken for GHost to run. See this thread for details: https://ghostplay.de/index.php/Thread/34931-Warcraft-1-29-patch-is-OUT/?pageNo=3

And this wiki page as well: http://wiki.eurobattle.net/index.php?title=GHost_changes_in_patch_1.29

The gist is that you need to add a blank storm.dll and game.dll to your Warcraft III directory so that the checksum still passes and you need to extra Scripts/Blizzard.j and Scripts/common.j from War3x.mpq using a tool like MPQ Editor.

The new replay build number is 6060.

docker run --rm -p 9367:9367 -p 6112:6112 -p 6114:6114 -p 6113:6113 -v ghost.cfg:/opt/ghostpp/ghost.cfg lytedev/ghostpp

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See MANUAL or the ghostpp.com wiki for more in-depth but possibly outdated guides on other platforms.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++.