Compiling Spigot Minecraft Server for CentOS 7

A quick cheat sheet for those who don’t want to read the entire post with all the instructions:

Make a CentOS 7 server, then execute these three commands in it:

$ sudo yum -y install git java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel
# TONS of output and dependent packages install

$ wget https://hub.spigotmc.org/jenkins/job/BuildTools/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/target/BuildTools.jar
--2015-09-05 18:42:24--  https://hub.spigotmc.org/jenkins/job/BuildTools/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/target/BuildTools.jar
Resolving hub.spigotmc.org (hub.spigotmc.org)... 198.41.205.94, 198.41.204.94, 2400:cb00:2048:1::c629:cd5e, ...
Connecting to hub.spigotmc.org (hub.spigotmc.org)|198.41.205.94|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3411286 (3.3M) [application/java-archive]
Saving to: ‘BuildTools.jar’

100%[======================================>] 3,411,286   2.65MB/s   in 1.2s

Last-modified header invalid -- time-stamp ignored.
2015-09-05 18:42:27 (2.65 MB/s) - ‘BuildTools.jar’ saved [3411286/3411286]

$ java -jar BuildTools.jar
# TONS of output
Success! Everything compiled successfully. Copying final .jar files now.
Copying craftbukkit-1.8.8-R0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar to /root/.
  - Saved as craftbukkit-1.8.8.jar
Copying spigot-1.8.8-R0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar to /root/.
  - Saved as spigot-1.8.8.jar

Now you’ve got the latest jars for spigot and craftbukkit. Enjoy!