eqemu-server/BUILD.md

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 3.20 or higher to build from source.

Dependencies

The following libraries are required to build from source:

• uuid (unix)

The following libraries are not strictly required but in many cased recommended.

• Perl (Required for Perl Quest Scripting)

Windows

If you wish to use Perl then you should use whichever version of Perl you have installed on the target system.

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 libperl-dev uuid-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.

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2022 Win64" -DEQEMU_BUILD_TESTS=ON -DEQEMU_BUILD_LOGIN=ON ..

Linux

Similarly to Windows running CMake on Linux is simple it just uses a different generator.

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DEQEMU_BUILD_TESTS=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