How To Compile Noob Friendly for 3.1.x

[lilsinger]

Hello everyone, I am lilsinger and Ive decided to get myself known. So today Im going to show you how to compile for 3.1.x the easy fast and efficent way! I will also tell you how to set up a database as well

Great so lets get started!

Step 1
First lets get our downloads, for this you will need

Tortosie SVN

Visual Stuido C++ Express

.Net Framework

Once you have all of these installed then go on to step 2

Step 2
Obtaining the Core

First of all you need a core to get started, for 3.1.x I suggest Aspire/Hearthstone as its the only one to support it =\

1) Make a new folder anywhere call it "Aspire Core"

2) Right click the folder and click on "SVN Checkout"

3) In the URL Type "svn://svn.AspireDev.org/AspireCore/trunk" without
the quotes

4) Make sure Head Revision is selected and click "OK"

5 A box will appear downloading your core this may take some time, once its done move on to the next step

Step 3

Now we have to do some file movements so that the core will compile correctly. When I say svndir I mean where you checked out the core and visualstudiodir i mean where your visual stuido is isntalled.

1) Navigate to: <svndir>\extras\dependencies

2) First off, we are going to copy the DLL files.

3) Open the 'DLL Files' folder, and copy the 2 .dll files inside.

4) Now navigate to: C:\Windows\system32\

5) Paste the two DLL files inside the system32 folder.

6) Navigate back to: <svndir>\extras\dependencies

7) Copy the files inside <svndir>\extras\dependencies\VC\lib

Copy them to <visualstudiodir>\VC\lib

9) Copy the files inside <svndir>\extras\dependencies\VC\include

10) Copy them to <visualstudiodir>\VC\include

Step 4

Now that those file movements are done we can compile the core!


1) Open "VC90-solution.sln" inside the "<svndir>\extras\dependencies\Sources" folder

2) Change the Build Configuration by going to "Build\Configuration Manager"

3) Change "Debug" to "Release" and click Ok

4) Now go back and open the folder "Output_Release"

5) Copy the files pcre.lib and zlib.lib. to <visualstudiodir>\VC\lib

This only has to be done once per compiler!
When you update Aspire, this doesn't need to be done each time.


6) Navigate to the \win\ folder and open ascentVC90.sln / heartstoneVC90.sln follow the same steps, change the build and compile

7) Navigate to \src\scripts and open scripts2008.sln

Your newly compiled core is located in the \bin\Release\ folder.

Step 5

Now we are going to get our client files

1) Download Client Files

2) Extract them anywhere

3) Copy the files in the MPQE folder over to your World of Warcraft\Data\enUS directory

4) Open command prompt. Navigate to the directory using the cd command, like so;

cd C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Data\enUS

5) Execute the command

mpqe /p locale-enUS.MPQ DBFilesClient\*.dbc

6) The extracted DBCs can be found in Data\enUS\MPQOUT\DBFilesClient

7) Copy the ad.exe file to your client's root directory - World of Warcraft\. Create a folder called "maps" and start ad.exe. It should start extracting map files from your client. When it's done, copy the "maps" folder directly to your server's directory.

And congrats! You have sucessfully compiled your core! Watch out for my next tutorial on how to set up your database! And how to update your server!

Before we go lets make a outer core so its easyer to see your server

1) Make a folder call it your server name

2) Navigate to the bin\release folder

3) Copy everything inside to the server name folder

4) Navigate to \src\ and copy the config files to the server folder

5) Also copy the DBCs and the maps to the folder as well

Edit your configs and your server will be ready! ENJOY!

Credits: Me
Aspire Wiki for when I was too lazy to find it myself :P

Hope this helped

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[svedin]

Good guide this will be useful for some that is new to Compileing ^^

+rep

[lilsinger]

Thanks, Ill link my new guides on this when they are done glad i could help

[MasterYuke]

4) Now go back and open the folder "Output_Release"

where is this?

[einar325]

Sweet, Thnx allot m8

[MasterYuke]

bump, epic post but I still need an answer :P

[ladycrys]

after
"3) Change "Debug" to "Release" and click Ok" you must build the solution
and in dependency sources is automatically created a folder: output_release

[ladycrys]

em...how can i see the latest rev of arcemu, mangos ecc?

[MasterYuke]

WAIT fixed, I missed the part where it said "you must build the solution"
hahaha yes, no problems anymore (for now)

[MasterYuke]

now problem: my WoW directory is on my E:\ drive, so I can't do anything with cmd. is there any other way to do this?

[Glorianglorre]

4) Now go back and open the folder "Output_Release"

Where is "Output_Release"?

EDIT: I missed 1 part lol

[Illegalpie]

Rep him you guys he deserves it. All you commenting and asking Rep him too. Great job +Rep from me

[PewPewNao]

Might be a dumb question but where should i get the database? i mean the executable sql files

[Bunster]

Im downloading the stuff now, looks like a good guide will let you know how i get on thx a lot for the guide

My VC90 wont load becuase it says some think is the wrong version any ideas?

[Estharius]

This was easily followed wonderful guide. Repped