PokerStove
PokerStove is a highly hand optimized C++ poker hand evaluation library. The Win32 Hold'em GUI was first released in 2002, 4️⃣ and has been available as freeware since it's first release.
The core libraries of pokerstove are being open sourced. The project 4️⃣ is currently in the process of reviewing and publishing the code. As code is reviewed and code sanitized further commits 4️⃣ will be added.
Please find the old installer in the win32 directory. That installer should install a version of PokerStove which 4️⃣ will not expire at any time. You can also find the apk file for the Android version of the utility 4️⃣ in the android folder.
Libraries
peval
This is a c++ poker hand evaluation library. The main design goals of the library are generality, 4️⃣ extensibility, and ease of use. There are evaluators for fourteen variants of poker. Additionally, there are various card manipulation and 4️⃣ query tools built into the CardSet class.
Programs
A tool for poker hand evaluation. It demonstrates how to use the peval library, 4️⃣ and to create evaluators for the different variants of poker.
A utility for viewing colexicographical index for sets of cards.
Building
The pokerstove 4️⃣ libraries come with build scripts for cmake. This should allow you to build it on any platform with minimal tweaking. 4️⃣ This project has been successfully build under linux/g++, windows/vc2010 and OSX/XCode so far.
In order to build the libraries you'll need 4️⃣ the following installed on your platform of choice:
boost, version 1.46 or higher
cmake, version 3.14 or higher
Linux
To install the dependencies with 4️⃣ apt get:
apt-get install libboost-all-dev cmake
To build under linux using cmake, create a build directory, invoke cmake on the programs directory, 4️⃣ then build. The command below uses four threads, but you may set it according to your own system.
git clone https://github/andrewprock/pokerstove.git 4️⃣ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -S \. -B build cmake --build build --target all test -j 4
You should then be able to execute 4️⃣ the simple command line example:
pokerstove/buildR$ ./bin/ps-eval Allowed options: -? [ --help ] produce help message -g [ --game ] arg 4️⃣ (=h) game to use for evaluation -b [ --board ] arg community cards for he/o/o8 -h [ --hand ] arg 4️⃣ a hand for evaluation -q [ --quiet ] produce no output For the --game option, one of the follwing games 4️⃣ may be specified. h hold'em o omaha/8 O omaha high r razz s stud e stud/8 q stud high/low no 4️⃣ qualifier d draw high l lowball (A-5) k Kansas City lowball (2-7) t triple draw lowball (2-7) T triple draw 4️⃣ lowball (A-5) b badugi 3 three-card poker examples: ps-eval acas ps-eval AcAs Kh4d --board 5c8s9h ps-eval AcAs Kh4d --board 5c8s9h 4️⃣ ps-eval --game l 7c5c4c3c2c ps-eval --game k 7c5c4c3c2c ps-eval --game kansas-city-lowball 7c5c4c3c2c
Windows
Getting boost to work under windows can be a 4️⃣ bit of a challenge. One of the easier ways is to install precompiled librares. There is a batch of them 4️⃣ available at sourceforge. If you're working with Visual Studio 2010, you will probably need the 32 bit libraries. [boost precomplied 4️⃣ libraries] (http://sourceforge/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/1.53.0/)
Under windows, the cmake gui can be used to construct solution and project files for Visual Studio 2010. To 4️⃣ do this, browse source to locate the programs directory git/pokerstove/programs. Then create a build dir for the project. At the 4️⃣ bottom of the gui click Configure, then Generate. You may have to edit the git/pokerstove/programs/CMakeLists.txt to point cmake to your 4️⃣ installation of boost.
Once you've done that, you should be able to select
Menu->Build->Build Solution
to build the sample program.
OSX
In order to build 4️⃣ under Max OSX, you'll need to install XCode, git, cmake, macports, and boost. The first four can be installed in 4️⃣ the conventional manner, with XCode coming form the App Store, cmake, git and macports downloaded from the web. The macports 4️⃣ package is a typical unix package management utility and is required to install boost. Once you've installed and selfupdate'd macports, 4️⃣ you can install boost:
sudo port install boost -no_static
Or
brew install boost cmake
From there you can run the cmake gui as in 4️⃣ windows. This will create an XCode project which should compile the sample utility. Alternatively, follow the command line cmake instructions 4️⃣ in the Linux section.
Python support
Python support is done via swig integration. This has only been developed and tested for Ubuntu 4️⃣ at this point in time.
In order for python libraries to work, you will need to install:
sudo apt install python3 swig
If 4️⃣ you would like to also build the Python library as well, append the directive when the first cmake invocation is 4️⃣ run:
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -S \. -B build -DBUILD_PYTHON=ON
Once you have built the project with Python support there will be a python 4️⃣ loader file and a shared object file. To test run the script from the build directory:
PYTHONPATH=python/pokerstove/pyPeval/ ../src/lib/python/test-python
For regular use you'll 4️⃣ want to export the PYTHONPATH variable to your shell:
