ADHS-Institut / lczero-client

The executable that communicates with the server to run selfplay games locally and upload results

Compiling

You will need to install Go 1.9 or later.

Then, make sure to set up your GOPATH properly, eg. here is mine:

export GOPATH=${HOME}/go:${HOME}/src/lczero-client

Here, I've set my system install of go as the first entry, and then the lczero-client directory as the second.

Pre-reqs:

# (Bug workaround, using Tilps instead)
# go get -u github.com/notnil/chess
go get -u github.com/Tilps/chess
go get -u github.com/nightlyone/lockfile

Pull or download the master branch

Then to produce a lczero-client executable: go build lc0_main.go for the lc0 client

Running

First copy the lc0 executable into the same folder as the lczero-client executable.

Then, run! Username and password are required parameters.

./lczero-client --user=myusername --password=mypassword

For testing, you can also point the client at a different server:

./lczero-client --hostname=http://127.0.0.1:8080 --user=test --password=asdf

Cross-compiling

One of the main reasons I picked go was it's amazing support for cross-compiling.

Pre-reqs:

GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go install
GOOS=darwin GOARCH=amd64 go install
GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go install

Building the client for each platform:

GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go build -o lczero-client.exe
GOOS=darwin GOARCH=amd64 go build -o lczero-client_mac
GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -o lczero-client_linux