Compiling nwnx / nwnx_easy on Gentoo linux?

[Darafeyen]

Dear all,

I am running a gentoo hosted PW 1.69 CEP 2.2c with NWNX2 using the mysql, chat and letoscript plugins, which has developed an instability with DMs logging in (PW now on new hardware & software), occasionally crashing the server. (ends process)

I believe/suspect we need to compile nwnx using Gentoo..

I have looked at nwnx_easy, and it doesnt look like it will compile without customising for Gentoo.. or is there a better way to compile NWNX2?

I am hoping someone can help?

Darafeyen

[axs]

I'm also on gentoo and everything is stable.
Best idea is to use svn repository, it's most recent.
Make sure your gcc version is not newer than 4.3.4, on 4.4 most likely will not compile.

Try:
mkdir nwnx2
svn co http://nwn.virusman.ru/svn/nwnx2-linux/trunk/ nwnx2
cd nwnx2
./configure
make

If everything is fine should just compile without problems.

[Zebranky]

It's possible that the crash has nothing to do with NWNX. There is an issue with large palettes (over 16k items, IIRC) and DMs, though I forget specifics. CEP2 is definitely large enough to approach this being an issue.
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[Darafeyen]

I will look into the possible palette problem, thankyou

configure

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
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checking for bzero... yes
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checking for inflateEnd in -lz... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating plugins/areas/Makefile
config.status: creating plugins/chat/Makefile
config.status: creating plugins/defenses/Makefile
config.status: creating plugins/events/Makefile
config.status: creating plugins/fixes/Makefile
config.status: creating plugins/funcs/Makefile
config.status: creating plugins/functions/Makefile
config.status: creating plugins/hashset/Makefile
config.status: creating plugins/mnx/Makefile
config.status: creating plugins/odmbc/Makefile
config.status: creating plugins/profiler/Makefile
config.status: creating plugins/reset/Makefile
config.status: creating plugins/resman/Makefile
config.status: creating plugins/ruby/Makefile
config.status: creating plugins/spells/Makefile
config.status: creating plugins/structs/Makefile
config.status: creating plugins/system/Makefile
config.status: creating plugins/tmi/Makefile
config.status: creating plugins/tweaks/Makefile
config.status: creating plugins/weapons/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged

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make

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The compile ended in error :

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make[1]: Entering directory `/root/Desktop/nwnx/nwnx/plugins/odmbc'
g++ -mtune=i386 -pipe -m32 -Iinclude -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../.. -c -o HookSCORCO.o HookSCORCO.cpp
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:518: Warning: indirect jmp without `*'
{standard input}:599: Warning: indirect jmp without `*'
g++ -mtune=i386 -pipe -m32 -Iinclude -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../.. -c -o NWNXodbc.o NWNXodbc.cpp
g++ -mtune=i386 -pipe -m32 -Iinclude -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../.. -c -o mysql.o mysql.cpp
g++ -mtune=i386 -pipe -m32 -Iinclude -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../.. -c -o plugin-odbc.o plugin-odbc.cpp
g++ -w -fPIC -shared -W -Wall -m32 -o nwnx_odbc.so HookSCORCO.o NWNXodbc.o mysql.o plugin-odbc.o -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so when searching for -lmysqlclient
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a when searching for -lmysqlclient
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../libmysqlclient.so when searching for -lmysqlclient
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so when searching for -lmysqlclient
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [nwnx_odbc.so] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/nwnx/nwnx/plugins/odmbc'
make: *** [plugins/odmbc] Error 2

Problem with lmysqlclient ?

gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2/work/gcc-4.1.2/configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/include/g++-v4 --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --disable-altivec --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --with-system-zlib --disable-checking --disable-werror --enable-secureplt --enable-multilib --enable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --disable-libgcj --enable-languages=c,c++,treelang,fortran --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.3)

[Fireboar]

That specific error means you don't have the -dev packages for libmysqlclient, which are required to compile the odmbc plugin. More generally though, it looks like you're trying to compile on a 64-bit platform which, from what I understand, won't work.

[Darafeyen]

Dear Fireboar,

Yes, it is a 64 bit platform.
Will post other configuration details of the machine shortly. (mysql version, anything else which will be helpful?)

[Zebranky]

Since it's 64-bit, you'll need to set up a chrooted 32-bit environment. See http://www.nwnx.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1476 for a bit more.

We *really* need to have configure fail gracefully on 64-bit systems...
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Win32 SVN builds: http://www.mercuric.net/nwn/nwnx/

<Fluffy-Kooshy> NWNx plugin is to this as nuclear warheads are to getting rid of fire ants.

<ThriWork> whenever I hear nwn extender, I think what does NWN need a penis extender for?

[Darafeyen]

Thankyou Zebranky!

I will follow through : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1&chap=2

and see how things go. Thanks heaps for pointing me in the right direction!

Dar

[Darafeyen]

Im really happy to report that the 32bit chroot environment worked perfectly with nwnx_easy under gcc (Gentoo 4.3.4 p1.0, pie-10.1.5)
Also compiled in were the packages listed as needed in the nwnx_easy README

Had a problem with not being able to compile the ruby plugin, due to not finding something in the installed Ruby, but I am not using it. (so no impact for us) If anyone is interested in that, I can post the details.

DM logins crashing the server were also due to too much in the custom pallet, as you said. A hak was applied with standard NWN creatures and merchants removed, and much pruning of CEP 2.2 pallete has removed >1000 items/placeables/creatures, and now all of the team can login without crashing the server. Previously, some users could login under only Gentoo, crashing 1/5 attempts, and failing 5/5 attempts under windows. Varying RAM from 1 Gb to 8Gb made client crashes less often (without changing anything in the server or the pallete).

Thankyou very much for your help from all of us at Wheel of Time: A New Beginning http://mirrorworlds.soho.on.net/