Admins:Linux Server:Gentoo

I'll quickly throw up my experience of compiling on gentoo as of rev 253, although i dont have it fully working yet.

assuming you have a fully functional and up to date gentoo server, first off we'll need MySql and subversion, if you dont have it allready: (some use flags could surely be optimized, but i'll come back to that at a later date)

emerge -vD virtual/mysql

emerge -vD dev-util/subversion

There is of course, no package yet for eq2emu, so we'll need to compile manualy from svn:

cd /usr/src

svn co https://eq2emulator.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/eq2emulator eq2emulator

cd /usr/src/eq2emulator/Source/World

nano -w makefile

alter the line that reads (note the part about LUA):

LINKOPTS=-rdynamic -L. -lstdc++ -lm -lz -L/usr/lib/mysql -L/usr/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient -llua-5.1 -ldl

to read:

LINKOPTS=-rdynamic -L. -lstdc++ -lm -lz -L/usr/lib/mysql -L/usr/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient -llua -ldl

now execute make inside the World directory...

make

now make your installation directory, copy in the following files, and follow the rest of the configuration found elsewhere:

CommonStructs.xml ItemStructs.xml SpawnStructs.xml eq2world EQ2_Structs.xml LoginServer.ini WorldStructs.xml world_db.ini

cp *file* /usr/eq2emu/