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so i've been building a fresh LK server (have had running servers from vanilla and burning crusade era's upto now) and ran into an interesting snag. i've run and re-run ad.exe several times, and each time, it rips through and extracts all the DBCs just like one would expect. except, Spell.dbc is ALWAYS zero length. and the server binaries complain about this. has anyone else had issues with Spell.dbc (or a different dbc file) being dumped out zero length by ad.exe? peace ps: oh btw, if it matters: winXP SP2 - 32 bit, vanilla install except for visual studio 2010 express (to get necessary dll's for vmap_extractor to work) running in a virtualbox emulator (server runs on linux) and client installed on macosX.5 (never had an issue ripping files from the mac using a VM and shared folder access in the past). mangos is freshest from git repository. client is 3.3.5a fresh patching.

just posting this for anyone else in a similar configuration who stumbles during map/vmap creation. i'm running on linux, and using a windows vm (virtualbox) to rip files. the vm is a vanilla install of winxp-32bit. ad.exe ran flawlessly when i copied it from the contrib dir on the linux install to the client dir. when i did the same for the vmap_extractor bin/bat files, i kept getting an error message that the file could not be executed. searching forums didnt return much info, i decided maybe i'm missing some dll's that the dev's are taking for granted. i installed Visual C++ Express (free version), and Voila! vmap_extractor now runs. so for anyone else in a similar boat, this posting should come up in a search for you. for the dev's, please, in the future, if you pre-build executables, include any runtime dependencies in the README file, so that those of us not building on win32 are aware of what we need to install. peace! == stanton