Once all the files are on the server it's now time to pull things together.
This can be one of the most frustrating steps to do, but with a little patience it’s easy.

1) Navigate to the folder where you copied the compiled mangos server and data files

2) Open mangosd.conf with WordPad

3) Find the following lines:-

DataDir = "."
LogsDir = "."

Change these to:-

DataDir = "data"
LogsDir = "logs"

4) Find the following 3 lines:-

LoginDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;root;mangos;realmd"
WorldDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;root;mangos;mangos0"
ScriptDev3DatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;root;mangos;mangos0"
CharacterDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;root;mangos;character0"

You need to change the following:-

root to the username you use for the database.
mangos to the password for the user for the database.

Then you need to set the name of the databases to the names you created earlier:
realmd = The Realm database name
mangos0 = The World database name used by both the World database and ScriptDev3 Engine
character0 = The character Database name

5) Save the file then Close WordPad

6) Open realmd.conf with WordPad

7) Find the following line:-

LoginDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;root;mangos;realmd"

You need to change the following:-

root to the username you use for the database.
mangos to the password for the user for the database.

Then you need to set the name of the databases to the names you created earlier:
realmd = The Realm database name.

8) Save the file then Close WordPad.

9) Open aiplayerbot.conf with WordPad

10) Find the following line:-

AiPlayerbot.Enabled = 1

Change this to:

AiPlayerbot.Enabled = 0

11) Save the file then Close WordPad.  

These instructions vary slightly based on the version of the client you are using.

For Classic / MangosZero or TBC / MangosOne, realmlist.wtf is in the root of the game folder.
For Wotlk / MangosTwo, Cata / MangosThree or Mop/ MangosFour, realmlist.wtf is in the data/{locale} (i.e. enGB) off the root of the game folder.
For Wod / MangosFive, config.wtf is in the wtf folder off the root of the game folder.

1) Open the file realmlist.wtf (config.wtf for Wod) using Wordpad.

you will see lines like:

SET locale "enUS"
SET portal "us"
SET realmList "us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com"
SET patchlist "us.version.worldofwarcraft.com"

2) You need to change the realmlist and patchlist lines to the address of your server, Either:

The value used for localaddress if you are inside the network (i.e. a LAN user)
or
The value used for address if you are connecting to the network from outside the network (i.e. a WAN/Internet user)

Assuming this is a Local LAN user and the address of the server on the network is 192.168.1.209, you would change the lines too:

SET realmList "192.168.1.209"
SET patchlist "192.168.1.209"

3) Now save the file, then close Wordpad

1) Open a command prompt and type IPCONFIG.

2) Find the IP address shown against IPv4 Address: (In this example 192.168.1.33) - This is your local address

3) Open a browser and visit: http://www.whatsmyip.org/ - You should see a message like:

Your IP Address is: 170.21.133.118     - This is your external IP address and will be different on your system !!

4) Using your normal Database management tool, open your realm database (default name is realmd)

5) Open the table realmlist

6) Enter your external IP address (170.21.133.118) into the field 'address' and your local IP address (192.168.1.33) into the field 'localaddress'

7) Save your changes

This guide assumes that you have copied the contents of the tools folder (the result of a build of the source code) into the root of your client folder.
i.e. Where launcher.exe and wow.exe are located !!

1) Run 'ExtractResources.sh' and follow the onscreen prompts, you should choose the option to extract everything.

2) You will be asked how many CPU's to use for extracting MMaps (1 to 4) - The more CPU's the faster the MMaps extraction

3) You will then be asked whether you want to delay MMap extraction, just press enter for no delay.

4) A summary will be shown of your choices, press enter to start or CTRL+C to cancel the script

5) Several hours later you should see a message similar to:

	Finished creating MoveMaps

6) Navigate to the client folder and select the DBC, Maps, MMaps and VMaps folders and move them to your server folder

7) The “Buildings” folder can be deleted.

This guide is for Windows users looking to keep their server and/or database up to date with any changes.

If you followed most of our guides for the installation process, then you should already have a server and database folder that was cloned from GitHub. If you do not, then you may want to refer back to this post 

Updating The Server

1) Open your server folder. Right click anywhere (#1), when the context menu opens up, click "Git Bash Here" (#2).

2) Type "git pull" into your Git Bash window and press Enter.

You can see that I pulled an update that had 1 insertion and 1 deletion. You may have more depending on when the last time you cloned/pulled your git.

3) Open up the "win" folder.

4) Start up the "MaNGOS_EasyBuild.exe"

5) Note, depending on your version of Visual Studio this may or may not be necessary:

I press the "D" button, and then check off "VS 2022" and then "UPDATE".

6) We'll open up "BUILD OPTIONS".

7) Select anything you need on the left - in my case, I usually leave these as defaulted. Press "BUILD PROJECT". 

8) In Visual Studio 2022, I click the "Build" menu at the top (#1), Press "Build Solution" (#2). After the build is complete,. you should get a message to say that everything succeeded (#3).

9) You can close Visual Studio 2022 and the EasyBuild program. Navigate to your "*_install" directory. There, you should find your "mangosd.exe" and "realmd.exe" as well as your "mangos.conf.dist" and "realmd.conf.dist". The conf.dist files don't need to be replaced UNLESS there were changes to the server in the update that require a new configuration file -- you'll see this when you start up your server and it fails because of out of date configuration files.

Take your mangosd.exe and realmd.exe files and place them in the folder that you normally store your executables -- most people put them in different places, so I can't give you a specific answer. But I would assume you know, since you start your server up somehow.  

And that should be it for updating your server!

Updating The Database

1) Open your database folder. Right click anywhere (#1), when the context menu opens up, click "Git Bash Here" (#2).

2) Type "git pull" into your Git Bash window and press Enter.

You can see that I pulled an update that had 73,895 insertions and 28,662 deletion. You may have more or less depending on when the last time you cloned/pulled your git.

3) Double click the "InstallDatabases.bat" file to open up a guided script for database updates.

4) Type "O" (without the quotations) to "Toggle Only Install Updates to Database's", press Enter.

It will now show you a condensed version with a few options now. Since I'm happy with it applying updates to Character, World, and Realm databases, I'm going to type "N" for "Next Step" and press Enter.

If for some reason you did NOT want it to update a specific database, you can toggle those options to NO.

5) Fill in the questions asked of you for your database connections. You'll see in my case, almost everything was the same as the default answers, with the exception of my MySQL user name being "mangos" instead of "root". You may have a different username, password, database names, etc. that may be unique to your setup.

After you press Enter for the Realm database, it will apply your updates.

If everything goes smoothly - then you should see something that looks like this:

And that's it! You've now updated your server and database!

If you have any questions don't hesitate to reach out here or on the Discord channel!

All the best,
Fyre

EasyBuild is a 'Helper' utility to simplify the cmake build process. It also will check any of the prerequisites needed for MaNGOS and show you the current status.

1) On starting the app the following screen is shown, click 'Check Now'

2) If any of the required 3rd Party libraries are missing, it will tell you and provide links to them to download.

    You can also click on the 'DOWNLOAD ALL REQUIRED LIBRARIES' button which will display the following screen:

Here you can tick the libraries you want and download / install them all at once. Care should be taken to not mix 32/64 Bit versions (apart from OpenSSl which doesn't care).

3) Once all the prerequisite libraries are installed, the 'Build Options' button becomes available. Click the 'Build Options' button to show the next screen.

4) The Following screen sets the modules and options to be included in the MaNGOS server.

Build Folder: This is the folder where the required visual studio solution files will be created. *NOTE: NO SPACES IN PATHNAME*
Output Folder: This is the folder where all the final files will end up. *NOTE: NO SPACES IN PATHNAME*
OS Version Build:  Either Win32 or Win64 - This is normally selected automatically !
Visual Studio Version:  This selects the version of Visual Studio installed, if there are multiple versions install - they can be selected here.

Build Type: Specifies whether to open visual studio with either Debug or Release
Logging Level: Selects the level of logging to be shown onscreen - Show full log is the default

Pre Generate Options: 'Delete Build Folder' - This clears the build folder before building, Ticked by default.

Post Generate Options
'Open .sln Folder' - This will open the Visual Studio build folder.
'Build Mangos' - This will build mangos using msbuild with the progress messages appearing in easybuild. Ticked by default.
'Open Output Folder' - This will open the output folder on completion of the generation step.
'Open .sln File with VS' - This will automatically launch Visual Studio and open the project once the generation step is complete.

Server Build Options
'Include Main Server' - Builds the mangosd daemon which is the main world server.
'Include Login Server' - Builds the realmd daemon which is the main authentication server.
'Include Extraction Tools' - Builds the client data extraction tools.
'Include SOAP Library' - Includes the SOAP library in the Main server.
'Include PlayerBot AI' - Includes the PlayerBot AI library as part of the Main server.

Scripting Engines
'Eluna Scripting Engine' - Include the Eluna LUA scripting engine as part of the Main server
'ScriptDev Engine' - Includes the ScriptDev3 scripting engine as part of the Main server.

5) Click on the 'BUILD PROJECT' button to generate the Visual Studio Solution files.

If you had 'Open Solution File' ticked, Visual Studio will open automatically.

Otherwise the Output folder will be opened

TROUBLESHOOTING

If when you click 'BUILD PROJECT' button you get the following message:

The C compiler identification is unknown 
The CXX compiler identification is unknown 
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:35 (project): No CMAKE_C_COMPILER could be found. 
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:35 (project): No CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER could be found. 

Here is the solution.

When you're installing Visual Studio 2017/2019 Community on a new system you need to install the desktop development kit c++ with it. Especially the Windows SDK needs to be installed right (you can do that within the install-wizard of visual studio).
After doing that the error disappears and you can build your solution!

Download Cmake from: Cmake download

1) Cmake is available in 32Bit and 64Bit versions, make sure you install the correct version - especially taking into account the warning above.

2) I normally set the path for All users and create a desktop icon - the icon is purely optional.

1) First off, install Git 2.11.0 from the following location: 32 Bit  64 Bit 

or select another version from: General Downloads

2) Once downloaded run it !

3) The install will display a variety of screens as shown below:

4) Git is now installed !

1. INSTALLING DEPENDENCIES

NOTE : Always use 64-bit version of dependencies where possible. There is no reason to compile and run the server in 32-bit mode unless you are restricted by OS or hardware.

• Install MySQL Community Server : MySQL :: Download MySQL Installer
• Install GitExtensions :  Download Git Extensions from SourceForge.net
• Install OpenSSL : http://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html
  • Download and install the FULL SSL version (not the one tagged Light)
  • I would recommend installing both 32 and 64 bit OpenSSL libraries, this prevents future issues if you want to compile either 32 or 64 bit.
  • If either of these say you are missing C++ redistributable packages, follow the prompts and install accordingly.
• Install CMake : https://cmake.org/download/
  • Get the latest Binary distribution for your platform

2. DOWNLOADING THE SOURCES

For the sake of this tutorial we will be using Mangos Zero, but the same steps apply for One and Two. Change the GitHub links below accordingly.

Create a folder named "Source" anywhere on your computer. This is the folder we will use to download the server and the database.

Right click on the "Source" folder and click "Git Bash Here".

Once the command prompt window opens, type in the following command and hit enter :
 

git clone https://github.com/mangoszero/server --recursive --depth=1

This clones t he source as well as the submodules into the folder "Source/server". Once this is done, keep the command line window open and type the below command and hit enter :
 

git clone https://github.com/mangoszero/database --recursive --depth=1

You should now have the database cloned to "Source/database", and you can close the command line window.

3. GENERATING THE BUILD FILES

To generate the build files, which is what we will use to compile the server itself, open the CMake software you have previously installed on step 1.

You now have two fields you need to fill in. Specifically :

• "Where is the source code : "  In this field, you point to the "Source/server" folder you created earlier. (See below for example).
• "Where to build the binaries : " For this tutorial, we will use the same "Source" folder, however specify a new folder within "Source" and call it "build". (See below for example).

After you have filled in both of these fields, hit "Configure".

This will also prompt you which compiler to use! Make sure you select the correct compiler !

If you for some reason change any of the default values after configuration, you need to click "Configure" again BEFORE going to the next step.

Once configuration is done, hit "Generate".

If this finished without any errors, proceed to the next step. If you did however receive any errors, most likely you are missing one of the dependencies, have pointed to the wrong folders or selected the wrong compiler. Usually the error message you receive will make enough sense for you to isolate the issue. If not, make a new thread and provide the full output showing the error.

4. BUILDING THE CORE

Once the build files are generated, either click the Open Project button next to Generate, or go to your "Source/build" folder and open the file MaNGOS.sln. This will open Visual Studio and you build your server like normal. I would recommend to compile the core in Debug mode (default) as that will provide you with crash dumps should the core crash for whatever reason, making it easier for us to help you debug.

Once the core is done compiling, the server binaries, tools etc is located inside the "Source/build/bin/" folder, under either Debug or Release, depending on your choice.

Copy the following files to wherever you want to run the server from. For the sake of this tutorial, make a new folder somewhere on your computer and call it "Server".

• lua_scripts folder
• ace.dll
• ahbot.conf.dist
• libmysql.dll
• mangosd.conf.dist
• mangosd.exe
• realmd.conf.dist
• realmd.exe

If you compiled in Debug mode, also copy the following files to the "Server" folder.

• ace.pdb
• mangosd.pdb
• realmd.pdb

If the core built successfully, move to the next step. If you have any compile errors, please post a full log displaying the error messages. Warnings can be ignored for now.

4. EXTRACTING GAME DATA

NOTE: Tools should ALWAYS be compiled under Release mode, unless you are told otherwise during support. Debug tools will take A LONG TIME. You have been warned.

Inside the "Source/build/bin/" and either Release or Debug folder there will be a folder named "Tools". Enter this folder and copy the following files:

• ExtractResources.sh
• make_vmaps.bat
• map-extractor.exe
• mmap_exclude.txt
• MoveMapGen.sh
• movemap-generator.exe
• offemsh.txt
• vmap-assembler.exe
• vmap-extractor.exe

Paste these into your WoW directory and run ExtractResources.sh. Follow the prompts to extract.

This can take a LONG time depending on your computer.

Once this is complete, copy the following folders to your "Server" folder.

• dbc
• maps
• mmaps
• vmaps

6. INSTALLING THE DATABASE

Enter the database folder located at "Source/database"

Run InstallDatabases.bat and follow the on screen prompts to install the base database. Do mind, this database is the base database and will require you to run updates accordingly.

The updates can be found in the separate folders inside "Source/database", specifically "Character", "Realm" and "World".

The server will always notify you when you run the server files from the "Server" folder whether your database is up to date or not.

If updates are required, apply them using your preferred SQL tool, like sqlyog, heidisql etc.

NOTE : It is not a problem if runnign server with a higher DB content version.

7. INSTALLING THE SERVER

Once all the above steps are complete, you are ready to configure your server and start playing !

Go to your "Server" folder copy and and rename the following files :

• ahbot.conf.dist -> ahbot.conf (This file is optional, depending if you want to use the AH bot or not!)
• mangosd.conf.dist -> mangosd.conf
• realmd.conf.dist -> realmd.conf

Open mangosd.conf and edit lines 66, 67 and 68 to reflect your database information.

Open realmd.conf and edit line 110 to reflect your database information.

All other edits to the config files are completely optional.

At this point your server should be completely operational for a local test. If you have any other questions or require further support, please feel free to create a new thread for your specific issues on teh appropriate section (not on commenting this post).

NOTE : Always use 64-bit version of dependencies where possible. There is no reason to compile and run the server in 32-bit mode unless you are restricted by OS or hardware.

1. INSTALLING DEPENDENCIES

• Install MySQL Community Server : MySQL :: Download MySQL Installer
  • If you do it first time - highly recommend set root password to "mangos" (you can change it later)
    WARNING! As of MySQL 8.0.28, MySQL no longer supports the TLSv1 and TLSv1.1 protocols. So, u CANT use MaNGOS with MySql higher 8.0.28+!
     
• Install OpenSSL : http://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html
  • Download and install the FULL SSL version (not the one tagged Light)
  • I would recommend installing both 32 and 64 bit OpenSSL libraries, this prevents future issues if you want to compile either 32 or 64 bit.
  • If either of these say you are missing C++ redistributable packages, follow the prompts and install accordingly.
    WARNING! Installing SSL will cause error when running realmd.exe: 'libeay32.dll is missing' You need next step to avoid it!
     
• Download openssl-*-x64_86-win64.zip  from https://indy.fulgan.com/SSL/ and unpack it into Windows\System32 folder
   

2. DOWNLOADING SERVER

Go to download page and choose Mangos*Server_x64_release.zip

Unpack into folder where your server will run, this folder now is  *UNPACKFOLDER*.

3. EXTRACTING GAME DATA

Go to "*UNPACKFOLDER*/server_releasex64/tools/" folder and follow README.txt.

This can take a LONG (12+hours with 4 core processors) time if you will choose mmap (but still depending on your computer).

Once this is complete, copy the following folders to your "*UNPACKFOLDER*/server_releasex64" folder.

• dbc
• maps
• mmaps (optional)
• vmaps
   

4. INSTALLING THE DATABASE

Enter the database folder located at "*UNPACKFOLDER*/database"

Run InstallDatabases.bat and follow the on screen prompts to install the base database.

Skip spoiler if you do it first time.

NOTE : It is not a problem if runnign server with a higher DB content version, but i recommend dont do it.

5. INSTALLING THE SERVER

Go to your "*UNPACKFOLDER*/server_releasex64" folder and rename the following files :

• ahbot.conf.dist -> ahbot.conf (This file is optional, depending if you want to use the AH bot or not!)
• mangosd.conf.dist -> mangosd.conf
• realmd.conf.dist -> realmd.conf

Open mangosd.conf and edit lines 66, 67 and 68 to reflect your database information.

Open realmd.conf and edit line 110 to reflect your database information.

All other edits to the config files are completely optional.

6. LAST SETTINGS AND RUN GAME

1. Configure your realmlist: 
2. Go to "*UNPACKFOLDER*/server_releasex64" folder and run mangosd.exe
3. Go to "*UNPACKFOLDER*/server_releasex64" folder and run realmd.exe
4. Setting up accounts: 

Now you can run WoW.exe and login with created accounts

There are multiple ways of installing MaNGOS, this method will be using EasyBuild (a MaNGOS written tool) to simplify the process.

1) Although there are several pieces of third party software that are required to be installed, only two need to be installed prior to running Easybuild.

Git (See HERE for the Install Guide) and
Visual Studio (See HERE got the Install Guide)

Both need to be installed before continuing. If you don't have them installed... go do that now !!

The rest of the third party software required for MaNGOS are:

Cmake (See HERE for the Install Guide). Only 32 or 64 Bit can be installed, not both.
OpenSSL (See HERE for the Install guide). Both 32Bit and 64Bit can be installed together. You need the full rather than the lightweight version.
MySQL (See HERE for the Install guide). Only 32 or 64 Bit can be installed, not both.

2) create a folder to hold all the source files i.e. Mangos_Files

3) Select the folder created above in explorer and right click on it, then select 'Git Bash here'

4) Clone the MaNGOS server and database GitHub repositories into folders in this folder (See HERE for a guide for cloning the repos)

5) Using explorer navigate to the server folder created above.

6) Navigate into the Win folder and double-click EasyBuild(If building MaNGOS three, run 'Patch_Easybuild_Mangos3' as the administrator before running EasyBuild).

7) Click CHECK NOW and let EasyBuild check for the MaNGOS dependencies. If your missing one, download and install it.

😎 Once MaNGOS finds everything it needs to build, click BUILD OPTIONS. If you want to change anything such as whether to build the extractions tools or not. The defaults are fine so we click on BUILD PROJECT. This will take a while so be patient.

9) If you look in the _install folder, all the require files you need on the server are there.

10) The contents of the tools folder need to be copied to where the wow client is located ready for the extraction process (see below).

11) Copy the remaining folder and files from this folder to your server folder

12) Extract the client data using extractresources.sh (See HERE to a guide to extracting the client data)

13) Now it's time to set up the database.

14) Select the folder created above in step 2 and then select dbzero(for MangosZero).

15) Double-click on InstallDatabases.bat

16) The initial settings as defaulted for the typical settings required for a new server setup but you might not want to create a new user right now so you press P then press N to continue.

17) The next few prompts are ask you to supply some key information to connect to your MySQL server, the text in square brackets [] are the default values if nothing is typed.

      Some of the settings are:
      Server Name / Address
      Username
      Password
      Port
      Character Database Name
      World Database Name
      Realm Database Name

18) The script will then proceed to populate all the databases and finish up looking like the following

19) At this point the database is now fully loaded.

20) On the server where you copied the files earlier, rename the 4 .conf.dist files as .conf

21) Now it's time to start configuring the server, first stop is adjusting the settings in the .conf files as described HERE

22) Now we need to configure the Realm Database to use the correct IP addresses as described HERE

23) Now the moment of truth...

24) Double click realmd.exe from the server folder, you should see a screen like:

25) Double click mangosd.exe from the server folder, you should see lots of messages like:

26) You now need to create an account to allow you to login to your server from the client:

Type:

ACCOUNT CREATE username password expansion

(Where expansion is one of the following: 0 = Classic, 1 = TBC, 2 = WOTLK, 3 = Cataclysm, 4 = MOP, 5 = WOD, 6 = Legion)
- This is also the max allowed expansion this account can use!

NOTE: for mangos Zero, omit the expansion parameter.

27) and now for the the final step.....

28) One of the client files (realmlist.wtf) will need to be adjusted to point to your server, a description of how to do this is HERE

29) Start the your client(wow.exe),do NOT use the launcher, enter the account information created above and enjoy.

Notes for guide

* Must match the server version you wish to compile either 32Bit or 64Bit.

If you have a 3rd Party Database Manager like PHPAdmin or SQLYog, then you can disable 'Third Party tools'

Set a password you can remember as you will need this again. Also ensure 'Use UTF8' is ticked if you intend to use any localisation of the server.

Can be downloaded from: HERE (Change the product version to 5.7.xx). The latest version of 5.7 is recommended, it is possible to use 8.0 but this has not been fully tested.

Notes for guide

* Can only install 32Bit or 64bit - Can't install both (blame Oracle, not us)
* Must match the server version you wish to compile either 32Bit or 64Bit.

The main website for OpenSSL is: SLProWEb.com OpenSSL download page 

Either version 1.1.1 or version  3.x can now be used with mangos.

Just make sure you download the full version and not the light version.

The OpenSSL install is fairly straight forward with only a few default setting changes (one due to a bug in cmake).

The default folder is C:\Program Files (or C:\Program Files (x86)) as shown below, this needs to be changed.

Ensure you change the path to: C:\OpenSSL-Win32 or C:\OpenSSL-Win64

Change the following setting to 'The OpenSSL binaries (/bin) directory)

If you want to make a donation to OpenSSL (another open source project) please tick the required box, but you are free to unselect all the boxes.

Please should complete the installation of OpenSSL

First part is the current path, master is the branch that i'm on.

Green shows files are added, modified or removed in the current commit,
Red shows files are added, modified or removed which are not part of the current commit,
 

How to install Posh-Git

1) Open powershell

2) Enter the following:

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser -Confirm

Answer Yes to any prompts that appear.

3) Enter the following to install NuGet (if you haven't already):

PowerShellGet\Install-Module NuGet -Scope CurrentUser -Force

4) Enter the following to install Posh-Git:

PowerShellGet\Install-Module posh-git -Scope CurrentUser -Force

5) Import Posh-Git into powershell:

Import-Module posh-git

6) Set powershell to import Posh-Git by default:

Add-PoshGitToProfile -AllHosts

That's it, navigate to a folder containing a git repo to discover the magic.

Original Articles:
Dahlbyk - Posh-Git
Computering For Geeks - Posh-Git

This install assumes that the Windows OS is patched to the most recent, VS2015 is a bit picky on the version it will install on now (blame MS not us).

1) Download the installer from: VS2015 Community Edition  Other Versions can be downloaded from: VS - Older Versions

2) There are some settings which must be changed from the defaults for MaNGOS to work correctly !!

3) Change the option from 'Default' to 'Custom'

4) Expand 'Programming Languages' and tick 'Visual C++'

5) The rest of the install is standard.

6) It should also install any VS updates as part of the install.

7) To check that the VS2015 is correctly installed, try to create a new c++ solution (Win32 Project).

8) You may get asked to pick some default project settings, just click through.

If you get to a screen similar to the following, then you are good to go and you will be able to build mangos.

This install assumes that the Windows OS is patched to the most recent.

1) Download the installer from: VS2022

2) There are some settings which must be changed from the defaults for MaNGOS to work correctly !!

3) Once you have clicked on the installer, you will be taken to this page

You have to click on what is circled in red :

4) At this step just click on "Desktop development in C++" and click on install. (sorry my version is in french).

5) The rest of the install is standard.

You have to wait for the installation to finish.

7) At the end this image appears - no need to log in, just click on ignore for the moment.

😎 Choose your preferences and click on start/launch.

9) Click on create a new project.

10) To check that the VS2022 is correctly installed, try to create a new c++ solution (Win32 Project).

Selected windows desktop application (++) and click on next.

Choose your project parameters (name, place...)

If you get to a screen similar to the following, then you are good to go and you will be able to build mangos.

You can apply each of them by hand should you choose.
But you can use the InstallDatabases.bat script found in the database repo to do the work for you.

Run the script and you will see a screen like:

    __  __      _  _  ___  ___  ___
   |  \/  |__ _| \| |/ __|/ _ \/ __|   Database Setup and
   | |\/| / _` | .` | (_ | (_) \__ \
   |_|  |_\__,_|_|\_|\___|\___/|___/  World Loader v0.07

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         Website / Forum / Wiki: https://getmangos.eu
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   Character Database :   V   - Toggle Actually Create Character DB (YES)
                          C   - Toggle Create Character DB Structure (YES)
                          B   - Apply Character DB updates (YES)

       World Database :   E   - Toggle Actually Create World DB (YES)
                          W   - Toggle Create World DB Structure (YES)
                          D   - Toggle World Type (POPULATED)
                          U   - Apply World DB updates (YES)

       Realm Database :   T   - Toggle Actually Create Realm DB (YES)
                          R   - Toggle Create Realm Db Structure (YES)
                          Y   - Apply Realm DB updates (YES)
                          L   - Toggle Add RealmList Entry (YES)

                          N   - Next Step
                          X   - Exit

. Please select an activity ? :

We need to switch off the creation and initial load on each of the databases.

1. Press V [ENTER]
2. Press C [ENTER]
3. Press E [ENTER]
4. Press W [ENTER]
5. Press T [ENTER]
6. Press R [ENTER]
7. Press L [ENTER]

Your screen should now look like:
 

    __  __      _  _  ___  ___  ___
   |  \/  |__ _| \| |/ __|/ _ \/ __|   Database Setup and
   | |\/| / _` | .` | (_ | (_) \__ \
   |_|  |_\__,_|_|\_|\___|\___/|___/  World Loader v0.07

_____________________________________________________________

         Website / Forum / Wiki: https://getmangos.eu
_____________________________________________________________


   Character Database :   V   - Toggle Actually Create Character DB (NO)
                          C   - Toggle Create Character DB Structure (NO)
                          B   - Apply Character DB updates (YES)

       World Database :   E   - Toggle Actually Create World DB (NO)
                          W   - Toggle Create World DB Structure (NO)
                          U   - Apply World DB updates (YES)

       Realm Database :   T   - Toggle Actually Create Realm DB (NO)
                          R   - Toggle Create Realm Db Structure (NO)
                          Y   - Apply Realm DB updates (YES)
                          L   - Toggle Add RealmList Entry (NO)

                          N   - Next Step
                          X   - Exit

. Please select an activity ? :

Now press N [ENTER] and proceed exactly as you would for a normal install

This will only apply the required updates and skip any which are already installed.