Guides seem outdated/mismatched?

[draelder]

I've been following this guide and it seems to just end? If you try to go to guide on this website its still using 1.2 files and instructions so that's no help.

Compiling on Windows (vcpkg)

A free and open-source MMORPG server emulator written in C++ - otland/forgottenserver

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I compiled a 1.2 server years and years ago and I didn't struggle too hard and here I am 60+ hours deep in this making zero progress. I managed to compile it on ubuntu but it doesn't generate a config.lua only with the .dist. I've seen people say to remove the .dist but that didn't work either.

also when I try to do step 4 it throws an error

.\vcpkg : The term '.\vcpkg' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1

• .\vcpkg install --triplet x64-windows boost-iostreams boost-asio boos ...
• ~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (.\vcpkg:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

I'm just at a complete loss every guide I've seen is either outdated or uses mismatched files so it doesn't work

 

[Sorky]

You didn't install vcpkg properly, what did you expect? you have an error in your cmd.
Try adding vcpg into enviroment variables in path section

 

[Sparkles]

first change directory in cmd by doing «cd c:/vcpkg», then run command. for the config.lua.dist, just rename it to config.lua, if you cant see file extensions of files you have to enable it in explorer settings

 

[Sorky]

first change directory in cmd by doing «cd c:/vcpkg», then run command. for the config.lua.dist, just rename it to config.lua, if you cant see file extensions of files you have to enable it in explorer settings

Meh, and do it every time you want to install smth?
Just use variables

 

[draelder]

first change directory in cmd by doing «cd c:/vcpkg», then run command. for the config.lua.dist, just rename it to config.lua, if you cant see file extensions of files you have to enable it in explorer settings

it didn't accept it after I removed the dist either and goes back to what I was saying about the guides being massively outdated where do i put it? the guide on this site uses the 1.2 files and they are massively different than the current one its trying to install is why I'm confused.

Post automatically merged: Feb 20, 2025

You didn't install vcpkg properly, what did you expect? you have an error in your cmd.
Try adding vcpg into enviroment variables in path section

I followed the instructions on their quick start guide just like it said I'm not really sure how I could mess it up since its just copy pasting lines. As for the path variables thing I'm 100% an amateur and even google didn't clear that up for me.

 

[Sorky]

it didn't accept it after I removed the dist either and goes back to what I was saying about the guides being massively outdated where do i put it? the guide on this site uses the 1.2 files and they are massively different than the current one its trying to install is why I'm confused.

Post automatically merged: Feb 20, 2025

I followed the instructions on their quick start guide just like it said I'm not really sure how I could mess it up since its just copy pasting lines. As for the path variables thing I'm 100% an amateur and even google didn't clear that up for me.

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[Dejimo]

guides are 100% outdated, you need to tweak so much by yourself,
Having alot of issues myself, got one build to work after 3 days but I am having problems with the portforwarding it seems, also cant connect to localhost "webpage".

Also trying to figure out the client to connect to 8.6 version...

 

[draelder]

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this time it compiled with literally nothing changed on my part which is kind of what I'm talking about. Now my only choice is to go to the second part of the tutorial on this website which is literally linking me to 1.2 files when I just installed 1.6. The screen shots of how its supposed to look also don't match up so like what do I do now? what files do I use since I assume the 1.2 files won't work

Post automatically merged: Feb 20, 2025

guides are 100% outdated, you need to tweak so much by yourself,
Having alot of issues myself, got one build to work after 3 days but I am having problems with the portforwarding it seems, also cant connect to localhost "webpage".

Also trying to figure out the client to connect to 8.6 version...

I am legitimately confused how every guide is for a different version other than the current like I appreciate so much the time they took to build this but spare a minute to update the screen shots and links on the 2nd part of the guide. I knew i was going to have problems when it was linking me to the 1.2 files I downloaded years ago

 

[Sparkles]

this time it compiled with literally nothing changed on my part which is kind of what I'm talking about. Now my only choice is to go to the second part of the tutorial on this website which is literally linking me to 1.2 files when I just installed 1.6. The screen shots of how its supposed to look also don't match up so like what do I do now? what files do I use since I assume the 1.2 files won't work

Post automatically merged: Feb 20, 2025

I am legitimately confused how every guide is for a different version other than the current like I appreciate so much the time they took to build this but spare a minute to update the screen shots and links on the 2nd part of the guide. I knew i was going to have problems when it was linking me to the 1.2 files I downloaded years ago

Maybe appreciate that this is open source and you dont have to write the entire engine yourself?

 

[Amiroslo]

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[draelder]

Maybe appreciate that this is open source and you dont have to write the entire engine yourself?

I'm not trying to be unappreciative the guide literally stops at the halfway point hence the just massive confusion. The files go to different places with different names than the guide one of them literally doesn't exist anymore its a dead link has been for over 3 years.

Maybe appreciate that this is open source and you dont have to write the entire engine yourself?

I'm not trying to be unappreciative I'm trying to say the guide literally links to a 13 year old post with a page thats been 404'd for years

Post automatically merged: Feb 21, 2025

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GitHub - Black-Tek/BlackTek-Server: A 2D Top Down (MMORPG) Game Server, with the goal of becoming a rapid development game engine someday

A 2D Top Down (MMORPG) Game Server, with the goal of becoming a rapid development game engine someday - Black-Tek/BlackTek-Server

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I cannot thank you enough with this I got it up and running within an hour after days of nothing.