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+# Guide To Building From Source Without Installer
+
+This guide is far from exhaustive, you should expect to have some experience with building C++ code before considering compiling the code from scratch.  You should instead consider using the installer scripts if you don't want to hack on the code directly.
+
+### CMake
+
+EQEmu uses CMake as the build system on all platforms.  You will need CMake 3.2 or higher to build from source.
+
+### Dependencies
+
+The following libraries are required to build from source:
+- [boost](https://www.boost.org/ "boost")
+- [zlib](https://www.zlib.net/ "zlib") (If not included the source will build [zlib-ng](https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng "zlib-ng") instead)
+- [libmysql](https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/c/ "libmysql") or [libmariadb](https://github.com/MariaDB/mariadb-connector-c "libmariadb")
+
+The following libraries are not strictly required but in many cased recommended.
+- [OpenSSL](https://www.openssl.org/ "OpenSSL") or [mbedTLS](https://tls.mbed.org/ "mbedTLS") (Required for the loginserver and headless client)
+- [libsodium](https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium "libsodium") (Required for strong password hashing on the loginserver)
+- [Lua 5.1](https://www.lua.org/ "Lua 5.1") or [LuaJit](http://luajit.org/ "LuaJit") (Required for Lua Quest Scripting)
+- [Perl](https://www.perl.org/ "Perl") (Required for Perl Quest Scripting)
+
+##### Windows
+For windows it is suggested you make use of [vcpkg](https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg "vcpkg") if you wish to build your own dependencies.
+
+If you wish to use Perl then you should use whichever version of Perl you have installed on the target system.
+
+You can also download a vcpkg export from our releases section for Visual Studio [x86](https://github.com/EQEmu/Server/releases/download/v1.2/vcpkg-export-x86.zip "x86") or [x64](https://github.com/EQEmu/Server/releases/download/v1.2/vcpkg-export-x64.zip "x64") that includes a toolchain file you can pass to CMake.
+
+##### Linux
+For Linux you simply can install the dependencies from your package manager, below is an example of doing it on Ubuntu using apt-get.
+
+    sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev libperl-dev libboost-dev liblua5.1-0-dev zlib1g-dev uuid-dev libssl-dev
+
+### Running CMake
+
+##### Windows
+The following is a modified command our automated build server uses to run CMake via the release vcpkg export and its toolchain file. 
+
+Assuming it is starting in c:/projects/eqemu and the x64 dependencies were extracted to c:/projects/eqemu/vcpkg.
+
+	mkdir build
+	cd build
+	cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" -DEQEMU_BUILD_TESTS=ON -DEQEMU_BUILD_LOGIN=ON -DEQEMU_BUILD_ZLIB=ON -DEQEMU_ENABLE_BOTS=ON -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="c:/projects/eqemu/vcpkg/vcpkg-export-20180828-145455/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake" ..
+
+##### Linux
+Similarly to Windows running CMake on Linux is simple it just omits the toolchain file and uses a different generator.
+
+	mkdir build
+	cd build
+	cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DEQEMU_BUILD_TESTS=ON -DEQEMU_ENABLE_BOTS=ON -DEQEMU_BUILD_LOGIN=ON ..
+
+### Building
+
+##### Windows
+Inside the build directory a file EQEmu.sln should be produced by a successful run of the CMake command.  You can either open this with Visual Studio or build it directly with MSBuild via the command line.
+
+	msbuild EQEmu.sln /p:Configuration=Release
+
+##### Linux
+From the build directory you can simply call make to build.  
+
+For example.
+
+	make -j4