Linux Core Installation

Required software

See Requirements before you continue.

Getting the source code

Choose ONE of the following method, run one of the below git ... commands in your terminal.

1. Clone only the master branch + full history (smaller size - recommended):

   git clone https://github.com/azerothcore/azerothcore-wotlk.git --branch master --single-branch azerothcore
   

2. Clone only the master branch + no previous history (smallest size):

   git clone https://github.com/azerothcore/azerothcore-wotlk.git --branch master --single-branch azerothcore --depth 1
   

   Note: If you want to get the full history back, use git fetch --unshallow.

3. Clone all branches and all history:

   git clone https://github.com/azerothcore/azerothcore-wotlk.git azerothcore
   

This will create an azerothcore-wotlk directory containing the AC source files.

Compiling the source code

Creating the build-directory

To avoid issues with updates and colliding source builds, we create a specific build-directory, so we avoid any possible issues due to that (if any might occur)

cd azerothcore
mkdir build
cd build

Configuring for compiling

Before running the CMake command, replace $HOME/azeroth-server/ with the path of the server installation (where you want to place the compiled binaries).

Parameter explanation for advanced users CMake options.

At this point, you must be in your "build/" directory.

Note: in the following command the variable $HOME is the path of the current user, so if you are logged as root, $HOME will be "/root". You can check the state of the environment variable, as follows:

echo $HOME

Note: in case you use a non-default package for clang, you need to replace it accordingly. For example, if you installed clang-6.0 then you have to replace clang with clang-6.0 and clang++ with clang++-6.0

cmake ../ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/azeroth-server/ -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/usr/bin/clang -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/usr/bin/clang++ -DWITH_WARNINGS=1 -DTOOLS_BUILD=all -DSCRIPTS=static -DMODULES=static

To know the amount of cores available. You can use the following command

nproc --all

Then, replacing 6 with the number of threads that you want to execute, type:

make -j 6
make install

Services

systemd services might help you with managing your AzerothCore server. /srv/azerothcore-wotlk is intallation directory in following examples.

authserver.service

[Unit]
Description=AzerothCore Authserver
After=network.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=0

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
RestartSec=1
User=azerothcore
WorkingDirectory=/srv/azerothcore-wotlk
ExecStart=/srv/azerothcore-wotlk/acore.sh run-authserver

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

worldserver.service

[Unit]
Description=AzerothCore Worldserver
After=network.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=0

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
RestartSec=1
User=azerothcore
WorkingDirectory=/srv/azerothcore-wotlk
ExecStart=/bin/screen -S worldserver -D -m /srv/azerothcore-wotlk/acore.sh run-worldserver

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

After you reload systemctl, you can start AzerothCore like this

sudo service worldserver start
sudo service authserver start

Or stop it

sudo service worldserver stop
sudo service authserver stop

Help

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• FAQ

• Common Errors

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