[Arianne-general] server woes.

[Joe L. <jo...@ge...>]

A brief introduction:
I've been looking for an rpg to play for a few years now, specifically
one that I wouldn't be required to use someone else's servers for. 
I've been running first person shooter game servers for 3-4 years now,
and have the resources to expand on new adventures.
I also write client/server code for bridge stress monitoring guages
(not network bridge, but concrete - had someone confuse this on me
recently).

Anyway, on to the issues I'm currently having.

I'm using FreeBSD 4.4-stable, and did a CVS update of the arianne
source on dec 20th.  Using gcc v2.95.3, and couldn't begin to describe
the libraries I'm using as I installed them all late last night and
wasn't paying much attention.

The first problem I had was a configure script problem with mysql.
Just using "./configure --prefix-/home/lyfe/arianne" I recieved the
following error:

checking for MySQL library directory... /usr/local/lib/mysql
checking for MySQL include directory... /usr/local/include/mysql
checking for MySQL++ library directory... /usr/local/lib
checking for MySQL++ include directory... not found...

I wasn't able to find mysql or mysql++.
If they are installed, please use --with-mysql or --with-mysqlplusplus
I will compile a crippled version of the server.

Naturally, I tried to use the --with-mysqlplusplus flag since it was
mysql++ whcih didn't seem to be found properly.
So, I tried using "./configure --prefix=/home/lyfe/arianna
--with-mysqlplusplus=/home/local/lib" and this yielded the following:

checking for MySQL library directory... /usr/local/lib/mysql
checking for MySQL include directory... /usr/local/include/mysql
checking for MySQL++ library directory... not found...

I wasn't able to find mysql or mysql++.
If they are installed, please use --with-mysql or --with-mysqlplusplus
I will compile a crippled version of the server.

Lastly I tried just giving it "/usr/local" for the directory where
mysql++ was to be found, and still got the same error as I did without
specifying the --with-mysqlplusplus flag.
I tried reinstalling mysql++ but that did not help.

Well, at this point, I'd given up trying to get mysql++ support, as it
said it would simply compile a 'crippled' version of the software.

The next issue I encountered was in compiling.  During it's compile of
the client, it bombed out.  I'll get back to that once I finally get a
server going.  So I compiled the server by changing to each source
directory and doing a make install.
This got me as far as getting the required server files, including the
account manager in my install directory, however, due to that mysql
issue, I'm having difficulties adding users.  I'd prefer to have mysql
support, as it likely simplifies things, but help with either that or
the 'crippled' version would be nice.  Just something so I can see what
sort of progress is going on.

Thanks,
-Joe