SunwellCore is an early fork of Trinity Core, a World of Warcraft emulator for one of the expansions – Wrath of the Lich King. It’s mainly known by beeing used on a international server – Sunwell, which was closed somwhere at the end of 2015 (or maybe early 2016, can’t remember). But enough of the whining about the server, let’s do the business.
For this server you’ll need (the same as for TrinityCore):
– the code (I just git cloned https://github.com/Kittnz/Sunwell.git)
– a database – Sunwell Core Crew have done it on MySQL, I’m doing it on MariaDB;
– a machine that will handle everything;
– A will to make it work.
- Meet the requirements for TrinityCore
- Get the code
git clone https://github.com/Kittnz/Sunwell.git
- For SunwellCore you should also get libACE, libtool, autoconf and those packages which are in the “dep” folder in my case I had to
apt install libace-dev autoconf libtool libemalloc-dev libgsoap-dev libutfcpp-dev libg3d-dev
To compile the source with map tools you need to get libmpq. It’s provided in Sunwell/dep/libmpq I didin’t get this part working. I have compiled my version without map tools.
You need to run:
sh ./autoconf.sh
./configure
make -j $(nproc)
and as root, to install for the whole system: make install
- In the cloned repo create a build folder and change dir into it:
mkdir build && cd build
- After that we have to prepare our files for make and make install. To do that I’ve used:
cmake ../ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/<username>/sunwell_server -DCONF_DIR=/home/<username>sunwell <del>-DTOOLS=1</del>
- I’ve had some problems with the cmake so I made a small change in the file:
/home/<username>/Sunwell/src/server/shared/Packets/ByteBuffer.h
I’ve edited the line
return uint32(mktime(<) + _timezone);
to
return uint32(mktime(<));
- If we’ve done everything correctly we should be able to compile and install our files. If you have a multicore machine you can use
make -j $(nproc)
to use all the cores. Otherwise you can use
make
or if you don’t want all the cores to be involved, you can use
make -j <numberofcores>
and set the desired number of cores. Of course the same thing works for
make install
or
make -j $(nproc)
- If you have problems with swap and RAM during compilation – keep on reading. Otherwise continue to the next step. During the install of my machine, I have set my swap partition too small. Apparently it was causing problems during the compilation (all ram and swap was full) so I’ve created a swapfile.
All these commands are supposed to be done as root or sudo
9.1 Create a file. I’ve created a 1 gigabyte file:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swap bs=1M count=1000
9.2 Format the swap file:
mkswap /tmp/swap
9.3 Change the chmod to 0600
chmod 0600 /tmp/swap
9.4 Add the file to /etc/fstab
/tmp/swap swap swap defaults 0 0
9.5 Run
swapon -a
to activate the swap
9.6 Redo the compilation & installation process.
10. Database
The fabulous creators of Sunwell Core have actually provided us with the database. It’s full of their fixes (or hacks and temp solutions, as the creators of creators of TC like to call it on their IRC channel).
First of all you need to create a user and some databases, I’ve changed a bit the script provided by the TC crew:
GRANT USAGE ON * . * TO 'sunwell'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_UPDATES_PER_HOUR 0 ;
CREATE DATABASE `sc_world` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
CREATE DATABASE `sc_characters` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
CREATE DATABASE `sc_auth` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `sc_world` . * TO 'sunwell'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `sc_characters` . * TO 'sunwell'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `sc_auth` . * TO 'sunwell'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
after that you need to “fill” the database with data. The Sunwell crew provided all changes and all you need to do is:
mysql -usunwell -p databasename < file_to_import.sql
or if you have more files you cant also use:
cat *.sql | mysql -usunwell -p databasename
As you can guess you need to import the files to the right database. They mostly go to the *world database.
11. Maps
Because I wasn’t able to compile the core with tools, I had to use the provided maps. All you need to do is to unpack them to the right folder (pointed in the worldserver.conf). Here are the files: Dbc, Maps, MMaps, VMaps
12. Config
Once again, the Sunwell Crew thought about us and prepared a config. They’re located in the extras folder in the cloned git repo. After compilation copy them into the /etc folder. You need to edit the part about connecting to the database (in both, worldserver and authserver), RealmName (in worldserver), DataDir (well, you can leave it, but I create a seperate one) and your LogsDir (also in worldserver). For example, check the Trinity Core Documentation
13. Hey ho, let’s go!
1. Get screen
2. go to your compiled folder
3. start on seperate screen sessions:
bin/authserver
and
bin/worldserver
If you have don everything right, you should start your own server. If you want to set it public / lan than follow Realmlist Table paragraph
This little tutorial is not perfect. It might contain mistakes. But I hope it helped you.
If you have any questions or suggestions post them in the comment section. I’m not a developer. I’m not an expert. But I’m someone who spent some time on this server and I am very grateful to Xinef, Pussywizard, Jajcer and rest of the crew for allowing me to meet all the awesome people and spend great nights and evenings. I hope you guys are doing well.
Cheers,
Wizard
