[Guide] Installing ascent libraries

[lilvic12]

This is what you need to do BEFORE you compile your ascent server:

Downloads

Download the ascent-windows-libraries.rar from this link:
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Also make sure you hve Visual Basic C++ 2008 express edition which can be downloaded here:
Downloads


Installation

When you finish downloading those thing make sure to unzip your ascent-windows-libraries.rar to a folder on your desktop.

There should be four folders and a readme in the ascent-windows-libraries folder:



After that go inside of the VC folder and there should be two folders called 'include' and 'lib' in there:



Now go to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC and you should see several files including 'include' and 'lib':



Now go inside of your ascent-windows-libraries\VC\include folder and copy everything in there to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include:



Now go into your ascent-windows-libraries\VC\lib folder and copy everything in there to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\lib:



After that go to ascent-windows-libraries\Sources and open up VC90-solution:



Next you have to click on the build toolbar and go down to configuration manager... and click it:



It should bring up a small window. There should be some text saying:
Active solution configuration:
and a drop-down menu after that. Click the drop-down menu and choose 'release':



After that click close and press F7. This should make a bunch of text go into the output window. In the end it should say:
========== Build: 2 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========



After that close Visual C++ and navigate back to your ascent-windows-libraries\Sources folder. In there should be 3 new folders called Output_Release, pcre___Win32_Release, and zlib___Win32_Release. Go into the Output_Release and there should be two files in there:



Copy these two files into your C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\lib folder:



After you finish with that we will do the final step. Navigate to your ascent-windows-libraries\DLL Files folder, which should have two files inside of it:



Now copy these to files to C:\WINDOWS\system32:



Now you are finished setting up your ascent-windows-libraries. You don't have to do this again just compile your ascent and you're good. I hope this guide helped you in your server-making, feedback appreciated.

[metehan]

Nice job!
Have some REP!+Rep

[lilvic12]

77 views and one reply......Niiiice

[Power of Illuminati]

+Rep! Very useful, didn't know this beacuse a friend added the libs for me >.<

[lilvic12]

Thanks! A lot of people overlook this step so I hope this clears up some questions

[jekawo]

thanks, cause I overlooked this step at first..