Compiling

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Compiling from source

Compiler Requirements

Compiler/IDEs

Name	Support Level	Notes
Visual Studio 2019	Officially supported	Users will need to manually select the NuGet and All .Net 4.5 and 4.6 modules when installing.
Visual Studio 2017	Officially supported	Users will need to manually select the NuGet and All .Net 4.5 and 4.6 modules when installing.
Visual Studio 2015	Officially supported
Visual Studio 2013	Works/Unsupported	Users may need to install a modern compiler via NuGet, or will receive errors from the source.
Visual Studio 2012 (or older)	Unsupported

Compiler Addons

Name	Version
NuGet 3.4 (or newer)	Officially supported
NET Framework 4.5	Officially supported

Compiling

Getting the Source Code

Via git client

1. Download and install SourceTree

2. Choose to clone https://bitbucket.org/Ioncannon/project-meteor-server.git

3. Select folder to clone source code to

4. Make sure to switch to the develop branch

Manually via Bitbucket

1. Go to the Server source code

2. Click the "Downloads" button on the sidebar

3. Click "Branches"

4. Download an archive for the develop branch (unless you specifically need a different one)

5. Extract to desired folder

Pre-Compilation Steps

1. Navigate to the location the game client has been installed to and copy the following file:

<FINAL FANTASY XIV client install location>\client\script\rq9q1797qvs.san

2. Navigate to the location of the server source code and rename rq9q1797qvs.san to:

<Project Meteor Server source location>\data\staticactors.bin

Building

1. Set up your compile environment/IDE to support compiling NET 4.5 (the 4.5.2 and 4.6 targetting packs are being used as of this writing.)

2. Open Meteor.sln from where the source code was copied to in the previous steps

3. Get the dependencies via NuGet

Select the Solution Explorer Tab

Right Click Solution 'Meteor' (5 Projects)

Select Restore NuGet Packages

4. Select Debug/Release (as desired)

5. Go to the Build Menu and select Build Solution

Note: You do not need to do this step until you have finished configuring your server below

6. If everything compiled correctly, the output log should look like:

========== Build: 5 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

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