MangosZero Install - Debian

This howto will be on how to get MangosZero running on Debian in VirtualBox as Windows 7 64 Bit as the host

Installing VirtualBox

This part should be self-explanatory, I may recap on certain settings like BIOS and other default settings

Starting up Virtual box and Installing the base operating system

Create a new virtual machine, I'm going with a 64-bit install with Debian 7.2.0 ISOs. 512MB ram, create a 20GB dynamic partition. After the new virtual machine has been set up, give the server 12MB of video ram which is more than enough to run a server.

Start the server, and select your settings as you wish.

When installing packages, only install what you need because we want this server to be as trim as possible. No Desktop, XWindow or gui, just a straight server.

On the Software Selection screen, Unselect Everything but the standard system utilities.

Install the Grub boot loader

Setting up Build Environment for Mangos

Login as root, we need to install a few things first. After looking at top, I only have 58 processes total running and about 56k of RAM used. not bad at all. We want the OS to be as trim as possible, that is one of the goals for this article.

As root, type in:

apt-get install sudo

After install of sudo, edit the /etc/sudoers file and add your username

edit /etc/sudoers

Add under 'User Privilege Section' underneath root
username  ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Exit and save

Now type in exit and go back to your username. You should have sudo rights now.

Type in these commands to establish a build environment

sudo apt-get install -y autoconf automake clang cmake gcc g++ libtool make patch
sudo apt-get install -y cmake-curses-gui git-core

I had an issue with these commands not being found so I had to add the default repos in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main
deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main

deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main
deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main

deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main

Installing the Development headers

sudo apt-get install -y libace-dev libbz2-dev libmysqlclient-dev libncurses5-dev libreadline-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev

Installing the Database Server (MySQL)

sudo apt-get install -y libace-dev libbz2-dev libmysqlclient-dev libncurses5-dev libreadline-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev

Set the root password for the MySQL server

Creating and Setting Permissions for MySQL User

mysql -u root -p

CREATE USER 'mangos'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

for Password, use whatever you want and for user mangos, use whatever you want.

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `mangos\_%` . * TO 'mangos'@'localhost';
GRANT USAGE ON * . * TO 'mangos'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_UPDATES_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_USER_CONNECTIONS 0 ;

again for username and password, use whatever you want, just ensure they match

Creating the Mangos Databases

mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE `mangoZ_characters` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
CREATE DATABASE `mangoZ_realm` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
CREATE DATABASE `mangoZ_scripts` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
CREATE DATABASE `mangoZ_world` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES ;

Downloading the Mangos-Zero Source from github and compiling

While you are in user mode and not root, create the mangos source directory

cd ~
mkdir mangos-source
cd mangos-source
git clone --recursive https://github.com/mangoszero/server
git clone --recursive https://github.com/mangoszero/database

Compiling Mangos

create the directories needed for build

sudo mkdir -p /opt/mangos-zero/
sudo mkdir -p /opt/mangos-zero/logs/mangos-zero/
sudo mkdir -p /opt/mangos-zero/share/mangos-zero/

cd server
mkdir _build
cd _build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/mangos-zero -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DWITH_MOD_LUA=1 -DWITH_MOD_SCRIPTDEV2=1 ..

Now in the ~/mangos-source/server/_build directory

sudo make