[Mangos Zero] GETTING & COMPILING A MANGOS SERVER (Rel21)

[madmax]

This guide is for Release 21 (0.21.0) version of Mangos.

This guide explains how to get the source code from our git repositories and compile and run with a default config.

This guide assumes you have set-up a database and user accounts for it.

Before running the server, you need to run the extractor and put dbc, vmaps, maps and if you have them, mmaps in the folder with the server files.

Required Files

• Git for windows - Git - Downloads
  Install making sure the following options are selected Windows explorer intergration - Simple context menu (Git bash, Git GUI)
  
• Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015 - Free Dev Tools - Visual Studio Community 2015
  
  • Install with default options selecting C++ when it asks you what programming language you are using
    

  [*]Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus-plus.org

  Useful for editing .conf files and any other editable files.

  [*]Additional required files are downloaded while cloning the repo

Getting the source code

Mangos Zero will be used for this guide.

• Browse to where you would like to clone the files
  
• Right click inside a blank area in the folder and select "Git Bash Here"
  
• In the black command box type

  [b]git clone --recursive https://github.com/mangoszero/server -b develop21[/b]

  
  This will clone the latest Sever source into a folder called server - Including the --recursive is very important!
  
  

Installing the additional requirements

• Go into the new Server / win folder
  It should have these files listed
  
  
• Install: Cmake, mysql and openSSL (which version depends on if you are running x32 or x64 [x32 being more stable]).
  
  • Default options are fine in most cases.
    

MaNGOS EasyBuild

• Run MaNGOS_EasyBuild.exe located in server/win
  
• Easy Build main screen
  
  
• Click the "check now" button
  
  You should see green ticks and if you have everything done correctly you should be able to go to the build options page.
  
• Once on the build options page tick the "Include PlayerBot AI", if you are certain you are not going to use this feature then leave unticked.
  
  
• Clicking generate project will run cmake but inside of the EasyBuild application, you will see the output.
  
• Visual studio should be started when it is finished generating.
  

Output showing EasyBuild with the option to automatically open visual studio unticked

If you wish to compile at a later time the built files will be under /server_build/ you just need to double click on MaNGOS.sln

Compiling the source code

• Visual studio
  
  
• Once the project has loaded go to the drop down just below the team menu and select Release and Win32
  
  
• Press F7 or go to the Build menu and select Build Solution
  
  

The Mangos server is now compiling and time to go get a coffee, this process should take around 5-30 minutes depending on your system. Older single core systems will take longer.

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That's it! now head into the /server_build/bin / Win32_Release folder and your server files will be there.

[Danator]

Thx for the source code. Damn how many people work on this project? Are you from Vatican? I mean the whole structure of the source code is different from the source code of Release 20. Yeah - so it is impossible actually to work further on Release 20 because the whole structure changed that significant that all the mistakes I corrected in Release 20 can not be integrated easily in Release 21 or it is impossible to integrate the changes of Release 21 into Release 20. That makes sense. But only if you work for the Vatican.

[krill]

Thx for the source code. Damn how many people work on this project? Are you from Vatican? I mean the whole structure of the source code is different from the source code of Release 20. Yeah - so it is impossible actually to work further on Release 20 because the whole structure changed that significant that all the mistakes I corrected in Release 20 can not be integrated easily in Release 21 or it is impossible to integrate the changes of Release 21 into Release 20. That makes sense. But only if you work for the Vatican.

Rel20 is considered dead to us. It is to be dropped or moved into a archive later this month. The R21 will become Master.

[Olion]

Yeah - so it is impossible actually to work further on Release 20 because the whole structure changed that significant that all the mistakes I corrected in Release 20 can not be integrated easily in Release 21 or it is impossible to integrate the changes of Release 21 into Release 20.

The solution is so simple that the problem was never considered as one by the staff. PR your fixes to the Zero repo after a brief local testing period of few days, and keep your sources up to date with the current Develop branch.

[antz]

so it is impossible actually to work further on Release 20 because the whole structure changed that significant that all the mistakes I corrected in Release 20 can not be integrated easily in Release 21 or it is impossible to integrate the changes of Release 21 into Release 20.

It should be possible to merge all the develop21 changes into release20 - at that point, your code will be up to date with the latest mangos.

[davidlocke199]

Appreciate the tutorial. Thank you.

[davidlocke199]

Getting an error while generating project

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:20 (project):

No CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER could be found.

Any help is appreciated.

Note : I am using VS 2015

[Nsoft]

Getting an error while generating project

Any help is appreciated.

Note : I am using VS 2015

I had same error too.

And fixed a bug thus - install Visual Studio Community 2013 with Update 5 and rebooted PC.

GL.