Compiling on Ubuntu

In order to compile The Forgotten Server under Ubuntu, you need Ubuntu 24.04 at least due to package requirements. Then follow the next steps:

1. Install the required software

The following command will install Git, CMake, a compiler and the libraries used by The Forgotten Server.

Git will be used to download the source code, and CMake will be used to generate the build files.

sudo apt install git cmake build-essential libluajit-5.1-dev libmysqlclient-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-iostreams-dev libpugixml-dev libcrypto++-dev libfmt-dev libboost-locale-dev libboost-json-dev liblua5.3-dev

2. Download the source code

git clone --recursive https://github.com/otland/forgottenserver.git

3. Generate the build files

cd forgottenserver
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..

4. Build

make