How do you use mcrcon? about mcrcon

[Arthurmeade12]

Thanks! When I type ./mcrcon into terminal it recognizes it as a command and says, "You must give password (-p password).
Try 'mcrcon -h' or 'man mcrcon' for help.".
Then I ran make install while I was still in the directory of /users/arthurmeadenew/desktop/mcrcon-master/ and it said,
arthurmeadenew@Arthur-Meade mcrcon-master % make install
ginstall -vD mcrcon /usr/local/bin/mcrcon
make: ginstall: No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1
I don't know what this means. Did it install correctly?
And I haven't tried out the homebrew formula yet, I'll do that now.

[Arthurmeade12]

I ran make install and it worked. Thank you!!!!
Now that it's installed, to use it I just go into terminal and use ./mcrcon and then all the arguments I want, right?

[Arthurmeade12]

OK I typed in brew and then copied and pasted the formula you provided and at the end of the command line it said, "zsh: parse error near `end'
arthurmeadenew@Arthur-Meade mcrcon-master % ".

[Arthurmeade12]

Thank you very much! and thank you for helping me even though you don't have access to a real macOS. And brew install coreutils worked. Thanks!!

[Arthurmeade12]

Thank you! I tested it last night and it worked! rcon connected. Thank you!!

[Arthurmeade12]

Also, I don't know what "The only dependency is support for getopt() from unistd.h" means. Do I run getopt() unistd.h?

[Hagb]

Hi, how did you run the Makefile?
To compile mcrcon, you need to run make command but not execute Makefile directly.

[Arthurmeade12]

I just opened the makefile. I didn't type make into terminal. How do I run the make command without executing the makefile directly?

[Hagb]

To compile mcrcon, just cd to the where the source code is (for example cd /Users/arthurmeadenew/Desktop/mcrcon-master/), and then run make or cc -std=gnu99 -Wpedantic -Wall -Wextra -Os -s -o mcrcon mcrcon.c. (Refer to INSTALL.md)
Or maybe there is the binary you need in release.

[Tiiffi]

@Arthurmeade12

You have to have developers tools installed on your system (namely gcc or clang + dev libraries and make for running the Makefile).

I am not very familiar with macOS so I don't really know what is the preferred way to install these tools (Maybe Homebrew or perhaps the tools are coming with Xcode?).

If Homebrew is familiar to you there is a formula available here: https://github.com/webhippie/homebrew-webhippie/blob/master/Formula/mcrcon.rb

For last-ditch effort you could also download very old Mac OS build from Sourceforge repository: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcrcon/files/0.0.5/

This version is very old and I cannot guarantee it's working with any server.

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I would like to provide macOS binaries too but for now I don't see any reasonable way to make binary builds without owning a macOS.

Does anyone have good ideas how to provide macOS builds?

[Arthurmeade12]

I have homebrew and clang. I tried to run what Hagb said "and then run make or cc -std=gnu99 -Wpedantic -Wall -Wextra -Os -s -o mcrcon mcrcon.c. (Refer to INSTALL.md)" and it gave me this:
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arthurmeadenew@Arthur-Meade ~ % cd /Users/arthurmeadenew/Desktop/mcrcon-master/
arthurmeadenew@Arthur-Meade mcrcon-master % cc -std=gnu99 -Wpedantic -Wall -Wextra -Os -s -o mcrcon mcrcon.c
ld: warning: option -s is obsolete and being ignored
arthurmeadenew@Arthur-Meade mcrcon-master % make
make: Nothing to be done for `all'.
arthurmeadenew@Arthur-Meade mcrcon-master %
I will try to do run the formula on the homebrew link tiifi provided.

[Tiiffi]

Looks like it built succesfully.

You should be able to run it. Try: ./mcrcon -h

Running make install should install mcrcon to your system.

[Arthurmeade12]

Oh, and I can't test it with the server because I am not at my house, so that will have to wait.

[Tiiffi]

@Arthurmeade12

make: ginstall: No such file or directory

Looks like you don't have ginstall installed on your system.

I think you have to install GNU coreutils to make it work: brew install coreutils

ps. It is hard to help without access to real macOS to test these things.

[Arthurmeade12]

And based on what the readme.md document says you must enclose Minecraft commands in "(example)"? (in quotes)

[Tiiffi]

Now you should be able to run commands with mcrcon.

For example:

• If you want to get list of users from server:

mcrcon -H server-address -p password list

• Send multiple commands to server with 5 second delay between the commands:

mcrcon -H server-address -p password -w 5 "say Server is stopping!" save-all stop

• Or if you want to connect in terminal mode:

mcrcon -H server-address -p password

[Arthurmeade12]

This is all great, but when I try to run the ./mcrcon -H (IP address)
it says: zsh: permission denied ./mcrcon. Thank you for all the help!!

[Tiiffi]

For local executable (the one in your build directory) you have to set execution permissions: chmod +x mcrcon

But since you succesfully installed mcrcon you should be able to run it from anywhere just by typing mcrcon without ./ prefix.

[Arthurmeade12]

Can I close the issue?

[Tiiffi]

Yeah sure if the problem is solved.