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# Client-side Configuration

Ok. Let us look at the client-side integration next.

The client-side also expects a directory where all the EQU8 client-side components reside.

Copy the directory `equ8_client` from the SDK archive, and make sure that your game client can access it runtime.

## Client-side Initialization

Time to initialize and deinitialize the client library.

The client initialization requires a path to the client component directory we copied in the previous step.

The second parameter is set to a non-zero value for operating mode and can be one of the following values:

* `equ8_mode_disabled` - Completely disable EQU8. Use this when developing your game.
* `equ8_mode_production` - Production mode. EQU8 will monitor cheats and report them to your control panel.
* `equ8_mode_integration` - Only used during integration. EQU8 will **not** monitor for cheats, but instead just make sure everything is configured correctly.

Initialization should be done as early as possible. In the example client we do it in `main()`.

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="C/C++" %}

```cpp
int main()
{
    int rc = -1;
    equ8_err_t equ8_rc = equ8_client_initialize("equ8_client",
        equ8_mode_production);
    if(!EQU8_SUCCESS(equ8_rc))
    {
        print_equ8_status_code(equ8_rc);
        return rc;
    }
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="C#" %}

```csharp
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    //
    // Initialize the EQU8 client library and exit on failure.
    //
    equ8.equ8_err err = equ8.client.initialize(@"equ8_client",
        equ8.equ8_mode.production_mode);
    if(!err.is_ok())
    {
        Console.WriteLine("EQU8 err {0}", err.get_full());
        return;
    }
…and then 
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

 …and then at the end of `Main()`…

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="C/C++" %}

```cpp
    equ8_client_deinitialize();
    return rc;
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="C#" %}

```csharp
   //
   // Deinitialize the EQU8 client library.
   //
   equ8.client.deinitialize();
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}