Editing BZRobots

=About BZRobots=
BZRobots is a programmable computer player client that is compatible with the bzfs servers. It is designed to be an artificial intelligence training and development tool that operates under the BZFlag platform.

'''(Note that the following applies to the BZRobots in the upcoming BZFlag 3.0 release)'''

=History=
The BZRobots Programmable Computer Player Client was originally developed by Brigham Young University as a project called [http://bzrc.cs.byu.edu/ BZRC]

In 2007 it was further developed by Jørgen Pedersen Tjernø (AKA daxxar) as part of the [[Google_Summer_of_Code#Programmable_Computer_Player_Client|Google Summer of Code]]. Information about his work can be found on his GSoC blog at http://gsoc.daxxar.com

This work was continued in 2009 by Mathew Eis (AKA Bulldozer and KingRobot), again as part of  [[Google_Summer_of_Code#Programmable_Computer_Player_Client|Google Summer of Code]].

The current BZRobots code can be found in the [[BZFlag_SVN| BZFlag subversion system]] at http://bzflag.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bzflag/trunk/bzflag/src/bzrobots

=Quick Start: Building=
===Linux/OS X===
The BZRobots client (and support for C++ bots) will by default as a standard part of the bzflag trunk build. However, if you want to build Python bots, you will need to run ./configure with the option --enable-bzrobots-python (and of course have the necessary dependencies)

===Windows===
Open the bzrobots solution, then build the bzrobots and testbot projects. 

=Quick Start: Running=
(Note: This quick start assumes that you will be testing bzrobots from within the build directory, have already run 'autogen.sh', 'configure', and 'make' and have not run 'make install')
===Linux/OS X: Shared Library [.so]===
(Due to the use of libtool, the binary TestRobot.so is in the .libs directory)
 # cd bzflag/src/bzrobots
 # ./bzrobots -team red sobot@localhost .libs/TestRobot.so

===Linux/OS X: Python [.py]===
 # cd bzflag/src/bzrobots
 # ln -s .libs/bzrobot_pyext.so ./bzrobot_pyext.so
 # ./bzrobots -team red pybot@localhost ../../bots/python/TestRobot.py

===Linux/OS X: LUA [.lua]===
 # cd bzflag/src/bzrobots
 # ./bzrobots -team red luabot@localhost ../../bots/lua/bzbot.lua

===Windows: Shared Library [.dll]===
 # cd bzflag
 # bzrobots.exe -team red dllbot@localhost TestRobot.dll

===Windows: LUA [.lua]===
 # cd bzflag
 # bzrobots.exe -team red luabot@localhost bots\lua\bzbot.lua

=Developing Robots=
* [[BZRobots/API]] - A description the BZRobots API
* [[BZRobots/API_BZRobots_vs_Robocode]] - For those coming from RoboCode, a list of differences between the RoboCode and BZRobots

=See Also=
* [[BZRobots/Ideas]] - Community suggestions for and enhancements changes for BZRobots