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Lukas Brübach 0403ac9354 [Installer] Make the Inno Setup installer the default, with its failure hook.
COCKATRICE_WIN_INSTALLER now defaults to InnoSetup. NSIS stays selectable for
one release as the legacy fallback, and the two can still be built from one
tree and compared on a real upgrade.

The switches question from the previous commit is settled from Inno Setup's
source: the setup command line is an if/else-if chain over the switches it
knows, with no fallback that rejects the rest, so /R, /PID= and /D= are
ignored rather than refused. The client therefore sends one command line that
drives either installer:

- /R and /PID= for NSIS, which also needs /D= last and unquoted;
- /VERYSILENT and the CloseApplications set for Setup, which releases the
  mapped runtime DLLs through Restart Manager instead of waiting for a pid;
- /UPDATER as the client's own mark, read only by the Inno Setup script.

An older client that passes only the NSIS switches still installs; it walks
the wizard once instead of running silently.

The Sentry offer that AbortInstall carried is ported: a silent run the updater
launched, which began replacing files and never reached the end, offers to
send its log through the same helper. The helper is embedded with a [Files]
dontcopy entry and extracted at send time; a repeated [Files] section merges
with the generated one instead of being a compile error. Setup prefixes every
log line with a timestamp, so the helper's ABORT scan now allows that prefix.

CI installs Inno Setup next to NSIS, dumps ISCCOutput.log and the generated
script when the installer fails to compile, and --package NSIS|InnoSetup
selects the installer through the CMake option instead of adding a second
CPack generator to the run.
2026-10-26 08:29:22 +01:00
.ci [Installer] Make the Inno Setup installer the default, with its failure hook. 2026-10-26 08:29:22 +01:00
.github [Installer] Make the Inno Setup installer the default, with its failure hook. 2026-10-26 08:29:22 +01:00
.tx [Translation] Move config into git version control (#7575) 2026-10-18 14:29:51 +02:00
cmake [Installer] Make the Inno Setup installer the default, with its failure hook. 2026-10-26 08:29:22 +01:00
cockatrice [Installer] Make the Inno Setup installer the default, with its failure hook. 2026-10-26 08:29:22 +01:00
doc Support tab-separated deck imports (#4222) (#7267) 2026-10-11 21:19:10 +02:00
libcockatrice_card [CardDB] Clear CardInfo relations before deferred deletion (#7615) 2026-10-24 10:28:24 +02:00
libcockatrice_deck_list Support tab-separated deck imports (#4222) (#7267) 2026-10-11 21:19:10 +02:00
libcockatrice_filters [Filters] Precompute term data instead of redoing it per card (#7603) 2026-10-23 11:23:17 +02:00
libcockatrice_interfaces [Client] Tabbed room channels with unread states and collapsible chat (#7478) 2026-10-16 22:46:39 +02:00
libcockatrice_models [Models] Use QCollator for natural, cached sorting (#7633) 2026-10-25 01:01:04 +02:00
libcockatrice_network [Network] Do not format discarded debug messages, parse without memmove (#7606) 2026-10-25 12:49:24 +01:00
libcockatrice_protocol [Server/Client/Protocol] Let moderators clear banner cards (#7546) 2026-10-25 13:19:20 +01:00
libcockatrice_rng [CI] Publish a gcovr line-coverage report from the test run (#7404) 2026-10-11 15:05:28 +02:00
libcockatrice_settings [CrashReporting] Mock crash-report dialog and reporting preference (#7521) 2026-10-19 14:57:03 +02:00
libcockatrice_utility [Translation] Name languages without reading the translation files (#7662) 2026-10-26 02:39:26 +01:00
oracle [Translation] Name languages without reading the translation files (#7662) 2026-10-26 02:39:26 +01:00
servatrice [Server/Client/Protocol] Let moderators clear banner cards (#7546) 2026-10-25 13:19:20 +01:00
tests [Translation] Name languages without reading the translation files (#7662) 2026-10-26 02:39:26 +01:00
tools [CrashReporting] Name the files and processes behind a failed installer purge (#7590) 2026-10-24 00:46:54 +02:00
vcpkg@9e593bb18e Update vcpkg submodule to 2026.07.29 release (+ add baseline) (#7067) 2026-08-05 22:00:06 +02:00
.clang-format Enable RemoveSemicolon & update format.sh (#6896) 2026-05-16 20:26:37 +02:00
.cmake-format.json rework formatting with cmake-format (#4627) 2022-06-08 21:14:26 -04:00
.dockerignore Include git metadata in docker build context (#7393) 2026-10-04 03:48:15 +02:00
.gitignore [Card Database] Improve loading times through binary cache (#7051) 2026-07-27 23:12:53 +02:00
.gitmodules Docs: Use doxygen-awesome-css theme (#6512) 2026-01-24 11:22:43 +01:00
CMakeLists.txt [Installer] Make the Inno Setup installer the default, with its failure hook. 2026-10-26 08:29:22 +01:00
docker-compose.yml Docker compose: Link to our GHCR hosted servatrice image (#6728) 2026-03-22 10:28:24 +01:00
docker-compose.yml.windows Docker compose: Link to our GHCR hosted servatrice image (#6728) 2026-03-22 10:28:24 +01:00
Dockerfile [Security] Use a CSPRNG for salts, tokens, and RNG seeding (#7192) 2026-09-04 13:49:18 +02:00
Doxyfile [Docs] Add app logo to main page + cleanup (#7471) 2026-10-10 23:48:37 +02:00
format.sh [CrashReporting] Name the files and processes behind a failed installer purge (#7590) 2026-10-24 00:46:54 +02:00
gcovr.cfg [CI] Publish a gcovr line-coverage report from the test run (#7404) 2026-10-11 15:05:28 +02:00
iwyu.sh [Tooling] Add IWYU Qt6 mapping, generator, and runner script (#7454) 2026-10-08 11:17:01 +02:00
LICENSE update the address of the fsf in the license (#6113) 2025-09-10 18:18:34 -04:00
publish_beta.sh [Tooling] Add publish_beta.sh to automate Development beta tagging (#7505) 2026-10-19 15:01:18 +02:00
qt6.imp [Tooling] Add IWYU Qt6 mapping, generator, and runner script (#7454) 2026-10-08 11:17:01 +02:00
README.md [README] Small tweaks (#7585) 2026-10-22 20:13:43 +02:00
shell.nix nix: Add development utilities to shell.nix (#5725) 2025-03-15 19:03:26 +00:00
vcpkg.json Update vcpkg submodule to 2026.07.29 release (+ add baseline) (#7067) 2026-08-05 22:00:06 +02:00


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Cockatrice

Cockatrice is an open-source, multiplatform application for playing tabletop card games over a network. The program's server design prevents users from manipulating the game for unfair advantage. The client also provides a single-player mode, which allows users to brew while offline.

This project uses C++ and the Qt libraries.

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There is no strict release schedule for either of them.

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Code

To commit code to the project, please review our Contribution Guidelines first.
We maintain two tags for contributors to easier find issues to potentially work on:

  • Good first issue
    Issues tagged in this way provide a simple way to get started. They don't require much experience to be worked on.
  • Help wanted
    This tag is used for issues that we are looking for somebody to pick up. Often this is for feature suggestions we support, but don't have the time to work on ourselves.

For both tags, we're willing to provide help to contributors in showing them where and how they can make changes, as well as code reviews for submitted changes.
We'll happily advice on how best to implement a feature, or we can show you where the codebase is doing something similar before you get too far along - put a note on an issue you want to discuss more on!

You can also have a look at our Todo List in our Code Documentation or search the repo for \todo comments.

Documentation CI Docs

There are various places where useful information for different needs are maintained:

Cockatrice tries to use the Google Developer Documentation Style Guide to ensure consistent documentation.
We encourage everybody to improve the documentation by suggesting edits based on this guide.

Translation Transifex Project

Cockatrice uses Transifex to manage translations. You can help us bring Cockatrice and Oracle to your language and just adjust single wordings right from within your browser by visiting our Transifex project page. The Webatrice web client manages its own translations in its repo.

Check out our Translator FAQ for more information about getting involved, and join a group of hundreds of others!

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Dependencies: (for minimum versions search our CMake file)

Oracle can optionally use some packages to load compressed card files:


Basic compilation steps:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

You can then

  • Create a Cockatrice installation inside the release folder:
    make install
    
  • Or make an installation package specific to your system:
    make package
    

Note

Detailed compiling instructions can be found in the Cockatrice wiki at Compiling Cockatrice


The following flags (with their non-default values) can be passed to cmake:

Flag Description
-DWITH_SERVER=1 Build Servatrice server
-DWITH_CLIENT=0 Don't build Cockatrice client
-DWITH_ORACLE=0 Don't build Oracle card database tool
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug Compile in debug mode
Enables extra logging output, debug symbols, and much more verbose compiler warnings
-DWARNING_AS_ERROR=0 Don't treat compilation warnings as errors in debug mode
-DUPDATE_TRANSLATIONS=1 Configure make to update the translation .ts files for new strings in the source code
Note: make clean will remove the .ts files
-DTEST=1 Enable regression tests
Note: make test to run tests, googletest will be downloaded if not available

Tip

Build code documentation (Doxygen) according to our configuration into /docs:

doxygen Doxyfile

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Cockatrice is the game client
Oracle fetches card data
Servatrice is the server

Docker

You can build an image & deploy a Servatrice (Cockatrice server) container using Docker and our Dockerfile yourself.

For more details, look into our wiki section on Setting up Servatrice.
You'll also find more hints on our pre-build image there, or the docker-compose file which will configure and run both a MySQL server and Servatrice.

License GPLv2 License

Cockatrice is free software, licensed under the GPLv2.