Compiling Server

This is a short guide how to checkout, compile and start the RoR multiplayer server :)

General

Rorserver uses the cmake configuration system which generates make files/Visual Studio solution files. You can use cmake to specify options for building rorserver, e.g. RORSERVER_GUI (requires wxWidgets), RORSERVER_WITH_ANGELSCRIPT (recommended for use of scripts with the server) and RORSERVER_WITH_WEBSERVER.

Windows

Required software

• Recommended SVN Client: Tortoise SVN

• latest revisions:
  • Visual C++ 2010 Express (or equivalent)
  • CMake
• revision < 506:
  • Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition with SP1 (or equivalent)
  • CMake

Building

• Create an empty directory anywhere where you have enough free disk space (~35 MB): C:\dev\ror-server
• Right-click on the directory, select "SVN Checkout"
  • In the URL field, enter: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/rorserver/code/trunk and hit OK

Then start cmake: START->Programs->CMake->cmake-gui(beta)

• Configure cmake:
  • "Where is the source code": C:\dev\ror-server
  • "Where to build the binaries": C:\dev\ror-server
  • Click the "Configure" button. Choose "Visual Studio" and don't touch the other options.
  • Everything should turn red, that's ok.
  • Click the "Generate" button; some red text may come up, for now, don't worry about it.
• open C:\dev\ror-server\rorserver.sln with visual studio and compile it (e.g. using Build/Build Solution)
• the result binaries are in C:\dev\ror-server\bin

Here is a video made by xGRAVEKILLERx: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv9OHDwFICI&context=C40841f2ADvjVQa1PpcFNqYajus_l62QL69zqkNd0FRzFc686tvX0=

Linux

install required build dependencies

You will need to install compilers with their dependencies, cmake and subversion:

• for debian x86 (lenny) also for ubuntu 8.10 - 10.4:
  • sudo apt-get install subversion build-essential cmake

building

# create rorserver user (required!) with no login rights:
useradd rorserver -s /bin/false
# then get the sources, compile and install them:
svn co svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/rorserver/code/trunk rorserver-trunk
cd rorserver-trunk/
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:STRING=/usr .
make -j3 && sudo make install

running a server under linux

go to /etc/rorserver and look at the .cfg files. One file represents one server.

Edit the configs, then start the service with

/etc/init.d/rorserver start

automatically restart crashed servers

the rorserver init script will check if a server is running before starting it up. Thus its safe to just execute:

/etc/init.d/rorserver start