Installation (Fedora 39)

Introduction

This is a basic guide on how to install SkyFire_548 and SFDB from scratch. **Please note this is a work in progress and only contains enough information to get most people a viable server in Linux.

Prerequisites

The compilation of SkyFire_548 and the setup of SFDB will require certain packages to be installed. In Fedora use the following command:

sudo yum install g++ make cmake git wget git-core openssl openssl-devel readline-devel zlib-devel

You may also want to install phpmyadmin and/or Apache. Do not forget the user and password for the Mysql root user.

Installing MySQL Start by downloading the rpm.

wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql80-community-release-fc39-2.noarch.rpm
sudo yum localinstall mysql80-community-release-fc39-2.noarch.rpm

sudo yum install mysql-server mysql-devel

Installing ACE - You should check if "6.3.3" or newer is the latest version installed.

For cases where you want to run an even newer release of ACE than mentioned here, or your distribution not supplying a version that isn't of recent date, please check your distributions repositories or documentation. You can also retrieve it as sourcecode at http://download.dre.vanderbilt.edu (feel free to use newer packages if you really feel like it). To build it from sourcecode, start by downloading and unzipping the source:

wget https://github.com/DOCGroup/ACE_TAO/releases/download/ACE%2BTAO-7_1_4/ACE+TAO-7.1.4.tar.gz
tar xvzf ACE+TAO-7.1.4.tar.gz
cd ACE_wrappers/

Add an environment variable called ACE_ROOT

export ACE_ROOT=$(pwd)

Create a configuration file, $ACE_ROOT/ace/config.h

echo '#include "ace/config-linux.h"' >> $ACE_ROOT/ace/config.h

Create a build configuration file, $ACE_ROOT/include/makeinclude/platform_macros.GNU

echo 'include $(ACE_ROOT)/include/makeinclude/platform_linux.GNU' >> $ACE_ROOT/include/makeinclude/platform_macros.GNU

Here is where we compile ACE

make
export INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local
make install

Note: make install will need to be ran by the root user since /usr/local file permissions are usually under root

In the event one has a 4-core processor, you would use "make -j5", minus quotations.
Note: There is NO SPACE inbetween j and 5. It's all a single stroke.

Please note that any old revision of the OpenSSL package installed by the distribution may/will interfere with the new version. See your distribution documentation for information on how to remove it to be able to use the new one.

Compiling and Installing the SkyFire 5.4.8

Grab the latest version of SkyFire_548 using git:

git clone -b main https://codeberg.org/ProjectSkyfire/SkyFire_548.git

This should create a directory called SkyFire_548 that will contain all the files necessary to compile the server and it's tools. Change to the directory, configure, and build.

cd SkyFire_548
sudo mkdir build
cd build
sudo cmake ../ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/skyfire-server/ -DTOOLS=1
make -j(#cores+1)
sudo make install

Parameter explanations

-DACE_LIBRARY=<path to ACE library>                      (full path to your libACE.so file INCLUDING the filename - do not use if you have ACE installed systemwide)
-DACE_INCLUDE_DIR=<path to ACE includes/headers>         (path to the libACE include directory - do not use if you have ACE installed systemwide)
-DOPENSSL_LIBRARIES=<path to OpenSSL library>            (path to your OpenSSL library - do not use if you have OpenSSL installed systemwide)
-DOPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR=<path to OpenSSL includes>         (path to your OpenSSL includes directory - do not use if you have OpenSSL installed systemwide)

-DSERVERS             Build worldserver and authserver
-DSCRIPTS             Build core with scripts included
-DTOOLS               Build map/vmap extraction/assembler tools
-DUSE_SCRIPTPCH       Use precompiled headers when compiling scripts
-DUSE_COREPCH         Use precompiled headers when compiling servers
-DUSE_SFMT            Use SFMT as random numbergenerator
-DWITH_WARNINGS       Show all warnings during compile
-DWITH_COREDEBUG      Include additional debug-code in core
-DWITH_SQL            Copy SQL files during installation
-DCONF_DIR            Set configuration directory
-DLIBSDIR             Set library directory
-DCMAKE_C_FLAGS       Set C_FLAGS for compile (advanced users only)
-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS     Set CXX_FLAGS for compile (advanced users only)

-DWITH_CXX_23_STD     Use c++23 standard (advanced users only)
-DWITH_CXX_DRAFT_STD  Use c++ draft standard (advanced users only)

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