[GUIDE] Compiling your OWN Core

STEP ONE:
Getting the Ascent Core and Compiling.
In this tutorial i am gonna be using
SVN ADDRESS http://mmoforge.org/svn/ascent/branches/3_8_stable/
for 3.8 stable

Now, if you want to compile Latest Ascent thats released then use
SVN ADDRESS http://mmoforge.org/svn/ascent/trunk/
for revision 4263


PROGRAMS REQUIRED:
Tortoise SVN
Visual C++ Studio (scroll down to Visual C++ 2008 and click download)
Make sure you're using VC 2008. It's the newest version, and the tutorial
won't work for older ones, as they require more tuning to compile ascent.


Download and install all the programs listed above.
You should have to restart a few times as well. When all that's finished, go to
the place you want your ascent core to be located in (I just used the
Desktop) and make a new folder called Ascent or whatever you want to call it. . Right click on the the folder and select "SVN Checkout" from the menu.

A box will pop up, and
you need to edit the first blank to read
"http://mmoforge.org/svn/ascent/branches/3_8_stable/".

Click okay.

The username for the SVN is anonymous, and leave the password blank.
This could take a little while. When it's finished, press okay.

Go into your Ascent folder, and you should notice one or more folders


Now we need to compile Ascent.

Open VC++ and go to File > Open > Project/Solutionwin and navigate to the 3.8 in your Ascent folder we talked about earlier. Go into the folder and there should be a file called AscentVC90 (make sure it says in grey 2008 under it) (the file, not the folder).
Open it. Then go to Build > Configuration Manager and make the drop down menu at the top read release. Click okay. Go toBuild >> Build Solution.

This will take a while. At the end, it SHOULD say :
6 completed, 0 errors, 1 skipped. If it has any errors, you did something
wrong , but warnings are okay. The one skipped is okay, you don't need it.

Now we will compile the scripts. Open up the scripts2008 file in the src > scripts folder. and make it release, and build it like in the AscentVC90 file. When it finishes, you should have 4 completed 0 errors 0 skipped. Again, warnings are fine.

IN your Ascent folder we made, there will be a BIN folder in which you will have your compiled ascent and scripts.

We done You are now a pro in compiling your own core

nice guide just add a few things in

the latest trunk can be found at "http://mmoforge.org/svn/ascent/trunk/"
the username is the same and the password is still blank.

after you have downloaded it, right at the bottom should be a rev number eg Completed download of rev 4110

make a note of that number so you can get help if you need it and so you know how far back you are in the updates.


right at the end to run your server you need to copy copy the files ascent-world.exe, ascent-logonserver.exe and the entire script_bin folder from "bin\release\" to a new folder (such as C:\Ascent) also copy all contents in "dep\lib32\ to your new folder and the standard configuration files ascent-world.conf, ascent-logonserver.conf and ascent-realms.conf over from "src\" to your new folder.

always been three

Before they were called ascent.conf logonserver.conf and realms.conf

now

its world- infront

can someone explain to me exactly wat a core does??