Configure

Using configure script is a method to generate makefiles before compilation in Unix systems.

When installing Hercules, configure script should be run after Git Clone and before compiling.

Table of Contents Basic usage Sample output Setting executable bit Additional switches Debug mode

Basic usage

<onlyinclude> To avoid errors in server-client communication, <code>PACKETVER</code> must be set to date the client you're going to use has been released at (in YYYYMMDD format), eg <code>20100730</code> for 2010-07-30aRagexeRE. Instead of editing mmo.h directly, <code>PACKETVER</code> can be set to desired date with configure switch <code>&#45;&#45;enable&#45;packetver&#61;YYYYMMDD</code>. Run following command, replacing YYYYMMDD with your client release date, eg 20100730. ./configure --enable-packetver=YYYYMMDD Configure script will perform necessary tests and generate makefiles. </onlyinclude>

Sample output

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking whether pointers can be stored in ints (old code)... yes
checking whether gcc supports -Wno-unused-parameter... yes
checking whether gcc supports -Wno-pointer-sign... yes
checking whether gcc can actually use -Wno-pointer-sign... yes
checking whether gcc supports -Wno-switch... yes
checking whether gcc supports -fPIC... yes
checking whether gcc needs -fPIC for shared objects... no
checking whether gcc supports -fno-strict-aliasing... yes
checking whether gcc is able to typecast to union... yes
checking for setrlimit... yes
checking for strnlen... yes
checking for inflateEnd in -lz... yes
checking zlib.h usability... yes
checking zlib.h presence... yes
checking for zlib.h... yes
checking for library containing sqrt... -lm
checking for library containing clock_gettime... -lrt
checking whether CLOCK_MONOTONIC is supported and works... yes
checking for mysql_config... /usr/bin/mysql_config
checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... yes
checking mysql.h usability... yes
checking mysql.h presence... yes
checking for mysql.h... yes
checking MySQL library (optional)... yes (5.0.51a)
checking for pcre_study in -lpcre... yes
checking PCRE library (optional)... yes
checking host OS... Linux
checking for MinGW... no
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/common/Makefile
config.status: creating 3rdparty/mt19937ar/Makefile
config.status: creating src/char/Makefile
config.status: creating src/login/Makefile
config.status: creating src/char_sql/Makefile
config.status: creating src/txt-converter/Makefile
config.status: creating src/map/Makefile
config.status: creating src/plugins/Makefile
config.status: creating src/tool/Makefile

Setting executable bit

In order to run configure script it must be executable, ie have the execute permission set. When checking out a working copy from a git repository repository, executable bit should be set automatically. However, if it fails for some reason, running ./configure will bring the following message (or similar):

  bash: ./configure: Permission denied

To fix this, set executable permission with:

  chmod +x ./configure

Additional switches

To display all available switches use:

  ./configure --help

Debug mode

It is possible to compile Hercules in debug mode with --enable-debug switch. Category:Installation