Newbie Help: Modern Setup Guide?

[prickle]

I use Ubuntu for my Linux box, so I predominently used this Wiki when I setup my EQEmu server:
http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...ianLinuxServer

I did a ~brief~ read up on Mint and it is based on Debian. So, Mint uses a similar package manager (GUI wise) (it uses the exact same package manager tool via command line ... "apt-get") to Debian and Ubuntu. So, the above Debian guide should give you a decent base to work with. You'll need to figure out which parts of the guide do and don't apply to your setup, but the Debian guide covers everything you need to get an EQEmu server up and running...

Once the prerequisits are taken care of the following is used to make updates:

1) Grab the SVN Source (consult your distro's documentation on installing SVN if it isn't already installed)

svn checkout http://projecteqemu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ projecteqemu-read-only

2) Patch the makefiles, if your Linux box isn't Intel hardware (I use AMD):

grep -Ril i686 * | xargs perl -pi -e 's/i686/native/g'
grep -Ril Di386 * | xargs perl -pi -e 's/ -Di386//g'

3) Make clean:

make clean

4) Make:

make

5) Copy your current server to make a new server directory for the new build (I use revision numbers to identify builds):

cp -r <old revision> <new revison>

6) Copy new binaries into the new server directory:

cp <build dir>/world/world <new server dir>/world
cp <build dir>/zone/zone <new server dir>/zone
cp <build dir>/EMuShareMem/libEMuShareMem.so <new server dir>/libEMuShareMem.so
cp <build dir>/eqlaunch/eqlaunch <new server dir>/eqlaunch
cp <build dir>/utils/cleanipc <new server dir>/cleanipc

hope this helps

[arggonuts]

Thanks for the reply. This looks like it will help. I will let you know!

[arggonuts]

I'm getting the same error that I had been getting with the sources I'd downloaded without SVN.

..//common/SocketLib/Mime.cpp -o ../common/SocketLib/Mime.o
..//common/SocketLib/Mime.cpp: In member function 'bool Mime::LoadMimeFile(conststd::string&)':
..//common/SocketLib/Mime.cpp:40: error: 'fopen' was not declared in this scope
..//common/SocketLib/Mime.cpp:42: error: 'fgets' was not declared in this scope
..//common/SocketLib/Mime.cpp:43: error: 'feof' was not declared in this scope
..//common/SocketLib/Mime.cpp:61: error: 'fclose' was not declared in this scope
make[1]: *** [../common/SocketLib/Mime.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/ken/projecteqemu-read-only/EQEmuServer/world'
make: *** [all] Error 2

My box is an Intel BOXD945GCLF2D Intel Atom processor 330 Intel 945GC Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo so I don't believe step 2 applied to me.

I tried using Ubuntu, but it gave me quite a few graphics driver problems so I tried Mint instead.

Anyways, this is about as far as I've been able to get compiling myself. I get rather lost if I just try to use the pre-compiled "EQEmu-Rev1052-Bots.zip".

I never got too into cpp so I wouldn't be able to see an error in the Mime.cpp file anyways.

Again, thanks for any help you can provide.

EDIT: I just found the thread the same or similar error. I'll post back after trying that.

[arggonuts]

Alright, Everything is good, though I'm not sure how to proceed after what you've given me. The other guides from here on aren't really helping me much. I know what I need to do, but not really how to do it in Linux with updated links and such. So if anyone else can help me out with the building the database, and all the rest of that jazz.

I'll keep working on it. Thanks for any help.