mcpelauncher-manifest

An unstable and dirty fork of the Linux and Mac OS Minecraft Bedrock Edition launcher client that supports 1.11+ (incl. most beta builds, 1.0-1.10 cannot be resized after start)

Features

• Random unknown crashes
  • provide crashlog and compilerversion (or mention the specfic download artifact)
• Full Linux x86, amd64 and arm support
• Limited macOS Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave support
  • reduced gpu performance uses a patched ANGLE - Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine to replace the crashing patch from minecraft-linux
    • render delay while joining the world or server with a lot of objects
    • mobs aren't rendered correctly (known as white mobs (sheeps, spiders...))
      • workaround set initial window size to display resolution
• Support for new Minecraft Releases (1.13+) out of Box
  • The mcpelauncher-server only supports 1.12.0.28 and 1.12.1.1
  • Might break sometime in the future
• unstable Xbox live login
  • Sometime fails silently without an errormessage (might be in the log)
    • to try it again close Minecraft and open it again
    • may caused by network problems (e.g. unstable internet access)
    • now crashes after trying starting msa multiple times without success
  • Friend joining
    • Sometimes only successful during world loading or won't succeed
• less game patches needed than the original launcher
  • defaults to pocket UI
    • e.g. change it in Settings->General->Video->UI Profile from Pocket to Classic
  • defaults to 60 fps vsync
    • vsync is ignored under macOS
    • can be disabled in options.txt
  • defaults to larger buttons
    • e.g. change it in Settings->General->Video->GUI Scale Modifier to -1
  • Scripting support isn't enabled, android defaults to no scripting support
    • might added back in the future
  • Initializes the game mostly like android does it
    • results in less function patches
    • implemented "java" functions in c++ rather than patching jni function calls
• More prebuild Linux (disribution) packages supported than the original launcher
  • Pure Linux x86 distro support on old PCs (SSSE3 CPU instruction set needed)
  • Linux ARM appimage
    • experimental and was only tested on raspbian
• Experimental (Chinese, Japanese) IME Support with eglut (not GLFW)
  • Now have to explicitly to be enabled with
    • MCPELAUNCHER_FEATURE_IME=1
    • to many distros have issues, with x11 ime or xim
  • type Chinese / Japanese with IME while a Textbox is open
    • You need to manually click the Textbox to allow IME to open
    • Only ibus IME is known to work
      • ibus-pinyin
      • ibus-anthy

Known Issues / Bugs

Game Launcher Game Downloader / Starter Xbox Live

Installation Guide

Currently are the mcpelauncher-client and mcpelauncher-server *.deb packages incompatible

AppImage (with update indicator)

and Packages for Debian, Ubuntu, archlinux and manjarolinux https://github.com/ChristopherHX/linux-packaging-scripts/releases

Install Prebuilds for MacOs 10.12 - 10.14

https://github.com/ChristopherHX/mcpelauncher-manifest/releases

Build from Source

Debian

• First, make sure you have all needed dependencies (drivers) installed:

• x86, x86_64, AMD64, x64:

  sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && sudo apt-get install cmake g++-multilib libpng-dev:i386 libx11-dev:i386 libxi-dev:i386 libcurl4-openssl-dev:i386 libudev-dev:i386 libevdev-dev:i386 libegl1-mesa-dev:i386 libasound2:i386

• armhf, arm64:

  sudo dpkg --add-architecture armhf && sudo apt-get install python3-pip cmake g++-arm-linux-gnueabihf libpng-dev:armhf libx11-dev:armhf libxi-dev:armhf libcurl4-openssl-dev:armhf libudev-dev:armhf libevdev-dev:armhf libegl1-mesa-dev:armhf libasound2:armhf && pip3 install jinja2 ds_store ply

  • Only Raspberry Pi (Note: raspbian buster with Pi4 and beyond, you might need to override preinstalled mesa)
    • Download https://github.com/ChristopherHX/mcpelauncher-manifest/releases/download/1.12.x.2.armhf.raspbian.buster/mesa.tar.xz and extract to $HOME/mesa
    • it should contain $HOME/mesa/include and $HOME/mesa/lib

• Next, in the same window, run git clone --recursive https://github.com/ChristopherHX/mcpelauncher-manifest.git mcpelauncher && cd mcpelauncher in the home directory.

• Also run the following commands below:

• mkdir -p build && cd build

• x86, x86_64, AMD64, x64:

  cmake .. && make -j12

• armhf, arm64:

  cd ../mcpelauncher-linux-bin && git checkout armhf && cd ../minecraft-symbols/tools && python3 ./process_headers.py --armhf && cd ../../build

  • non Raspberry Pi

    CC=arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc CXX=arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-latomic" .. && make -j12

  • Raspberry Pi

    CC=arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc CXX=arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-isystem $HOME/mesa/include -latomic" .. && make

• Finally

  • x86, x86_64, AMD64, x64:

    ~/mcpelauncher/build/mcpelauncher-client/mcpelauncher-client -dg ~/.local/share/mcpelauncher/versions/1.13.X

  • armhf, arm64 (non Raspberry Pi):

    OPENSSL_armcap=0 ~/mcpelauncher/build/mcpelauncher-client/mcpelauncher-client -dg ~/.local/share/mcpelauncher/versions/1.13.X

  • armhf, arm64 Raspberry Pi:

    • Warning only mesa 13.x from https://www.mesa3d.org/ seems to avoid huge rendering glitches
    • But will cause a Blackscreen if another mesa version is used, this affects the Pi4! LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/mesa/lib LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=$HOME/mesa/lib/dri GBM_DRIVERS_PATH=$HOME/mesa/lib OPENSSL_armcap=0 ~/mcpelauncher/build/mcpelauncher-client/mcpelauncher-client -dg ~/.local/share/mcpelauncher/versions/1.13.X

  • Then Minecraft Bedrock 1.13.x will begin to start up. Make sure you replace 1.13.X with your 1.13.X or 1.14.X installation, otherwise this setup will not work for you

Before starting the new launcher, please remember to download the game with the original Bedrock launcher QT GUI!

Archlinux

• prerequisites

  • Add the multilib Repository One time setup (Manjaro has it enabled by default, sudo bash -c "echo '[multilib]' >> /etc/pacman.conf && echo 'Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist' >> /etc/pacman.conf")

  sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm git util-linux sudo fakeroot binutils autoconf automake libtool pkgconf file make

  (git clone https://github.com/ChristopherHX/lib32-check.git lib32-check || cd lib32-check && git pull) && cd lib32-check && makepkg --syncdeps --noconfirm --install && cd .. && (git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/lib32-libevdev.git lib32-libevdev && cd lib32-libevdev || cd lib32-libevdev && git pull) && cd lib32-libevdev && makepkg --syncdeps --noconfirm --install || :

• compile and install the core launcher

  (git clone https://github.com/ChristopherHX/mcpelauncher-linux-git.git mcpelauncher-linux-git || cd mcpelauncher-linux-git && git pull) && cd mcpelauncher-linux-git && makepkg --syncdeps --noconfirm --install || :

• compile and install Xbox live login support

  ((git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/mcpelauncher-msa-git.git mcpelauncher-msa-git || cd mcpelauncher-msa-git && git pull) && cd mcpelauncher-msa-git && makepkg --syncdeps --noconfirm --install || :) && ((git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/mcpelauncher-msa-ui-qt-git.git mcpelauncher-msa-ui-qt-git || cd mcpelauncher-msa-ui-qt-git && git pull) && cd mcpelauncher-msa-ui-qt-git && makepkg --syncdeps --noconfirm --install || :)

• compile and install the launcher GUI

  (git clone https://github.com/ChristopherHX/mcpelauncher-ui-git.git mcpelauncher-ui-git || cd mcpelauncher-ui-git && git pull) && cd mcpelauncher-ui-git && makepkg --syncdeps --noconfirm --install || :

Solus

• optional mkdir -p mcpelauncher && cd mcpelauncher
  • keeps user folder clean
• sudo eopkg install -c system.devel
• sudo eopkg install git mesalib-32bit-devel openssl-32bit-devel curl-32bit-devel libpng-32bit-devel libx11-32bit-devel gcc g++ libgcc-32bit libstdc++-32bit cmake make binutils glibc-32bit-devel libgudev-32bit-devel libxi-32bit-devel
• Install libevdev-32bit-devel manually (git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/libevdev.git || cd libevdev && git pull) && cd libevdev && ./autogen.sh CFLAGS=-m32 && make && sudo make install && ln -s /usr/local/lib/libevdev.so.2 /usr/lib32/libevdev.so.2 || :
• Install mcpelauncher-manifest (git clone --recursive https://github.com/ChristopherHX/mcpelauncher-manifest.git mcpelauncher || cd mcpelauncher && git pull) && cd mcpelauncher && mkdir -p build && cd build && cmake .. -DCMAKE_ASM_FLAGS=-m32 -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=-m32 -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-m32 && make && sudo make install || :