• TrinityCore ¹⁾
• 3.3.5 ²⁾

• These notes provide a local singleplayer server for World of Warcraft 3.3.5 on Windows (see these notes for Linux)

• Windows 10
• World of Warcraft 3.3.5 (Windows)

• TrinityCore
• TrinityCore MMo Project Wiki

• Start/desktop shortcuts
• Set MariaDB to manual start Windows Service (install-time?) and have shortcuts to start/stop it (so not 24/7 background service even if minimal)

• https://trinitycore.info/en/install/requirements/windows

• 2024/10/14: Git, Visual Studio 2022, MariaDB, Boost, CMake, OpenSSL
• SQLyog for GUI database management

• https://www.git-scm.com/download/win
• Last tested: Git-2.47.0.2-64-bit.exe

• Git from the command line and also from 3rd-party software (make sure it's selected)

• https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=Community&channel=Release&version=VS2022&source=VSFeaturesPage&passive=true&tailored=cplus&cid=2031#cplusplus

• Install can be Modified after the auto-install to recover about 9 GB space
• Workloads → Desktop development with C++ (uncheck Mobile/Game/Linux dev C++)
• Individual components: Optional ³⁾

• https://mariadb.org/download/
• Last tested: mariadb-11.5.2-winx64.msi

• No Third party tools
• Use UTF8 as default server's character set

• https://github.com/webyog/sqlyog-community/wiki/Downloads
• Last tested: SQLyog-13.3.0-0.x64Community.exe

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/
• Last tested: boost_1_86_0-msvc-14.3-64.exe

SETX "BOOST_ROOT" "%SystemDrive%/local/boost_1_86_0"

• https://cmake.org/download/
• Last tested: cmake-3.31.0-rc3-windows-x86_64.msi

• https://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html ( not Light)
• Last tested: Win64OpenSSL-3_4_0.msi

• Copy OpenSSL DLLs to: The OpenSSL binaries (/bin) directory

git clone --branch "3.3.5" --depth "1" --recurse-submodules "https://github.com/TrinityCore/TrinityCore.git" "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\src"

explorer "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\src"

• All Database management including backups/restores are done through SQLyog

"%ProgramFiles%\SQLyog Community\SQLyogCommunity.exe"

• Ctrl + D or Database → Create Database
• Database charset: utf8mb4
• Database collation: utf8mb4_unicode_ci

authserver

characters

worldserver

• Ctrl + U or Tools → User Manager
• All Host as localhost
• Click the database with the same name as username and Select All privileges

authserver

characters

worldserver

• https://trinitycore.info/en/install/Core-Installation/windows-core-installation
• Ideally log-out and back in or reboot to update Environment Variables before starting

• Visual Studio 17 2022
• [x] WITHOUT_METRICS

MKDIR "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build\bin\Release"

"%ProgramFiles%\CMake\bin\cmake-gui.exe"

"%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\src"

"%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build"

• [x] Advanced (next to Add Entry)
• Search → mysql

• MYSQL_EXECUTABLE

"%ProgramFiles%\MariaDB 11.5\bin\mariadb.exe"

• MYSQL_INCLUDE_DIR

"%ProgramFiles%\MariaDB 11.5\include\mysql"

• MYSQL_LIBRARY

"%ProgramFiles%\MariaDB 11.5\lib\libmariadb.lib"

• Build → Configuration Manager → Active solution configuration: Release
• Build → Rebuild Solution

COPY /Y "%ProgramFiles%\MariaDB 11.5\lib\libmariadb.dll" "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build\bin\Release"

COPY /Y "%ProgramFiles%\OpenSSL-Win64\bin\legacy.dll" "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build\bin\Release"

COPY /Y "%ProgramFiles%\OpenSSL-Win64\bin\libssl-3-x64.dll" "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build\bin\Release"

COPY /Y "%ProgramFiles%\OpenSSL-Win64\bin\libcrypto-3-x64.dll" "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build\bin\Release"

git -C "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\src" reset --hard && git -C "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\src" pull origin "3.3.5" --rebase

"%ProgramFiles%\CMake\bin\cmake-gui.exe"

• Visual Studio → Build → Build Solution

• https://trinitycore.info/en/install/Server-Setup

• Expects World of Warcraft 3.3.5
• Move mapextractor mmaps_generator vmap4assembler and vmap4extractor to the WoW folder or use COPY commands below

explorer "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build\bin\Release"

explorer "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\World of Warcraft 3.3.5"

COPY /Y "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build\bin\Release\mapextractor.exe" "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\World of Warcraft 3.3.5"

CD "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\World of Warcraft 3.3.5" && "mapextractor.exe" -f "0"

COPY /Y "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build\bin\Release\vmap4extractor.exe" "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\World of Warcraft 3.3.5"

CD "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\World of Warcraft 3.3.5" && "vmap4extractor.exe" -l

COPY /Y "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build\bin\Release\vmap4assembler.exe" "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\World of Warcraft 3.3.5"

CD "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\World of Warcraft 3.3.5" && "vmap4assembler.exe" "Buildings" "vmaps"

COPY /Y "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build\bin\Release\mmaps_generator.exe" "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\World of Warcraft 3.3.5"

CD "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\World of Warcraft 3.3.5" && "mmaps_generator.exe" --bigBaseUnit "true" --threads "8"

• Move Cameras dbc maps mmaps and vmaps folders to the Release folder

explorer "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build\bin\Release" && explorer "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\World of Warcraft 3.3.5"

• Remove Buildings and extractor .exes

explorer "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\World of Warcraft 3.3.5"

• https://trinitycore.info/en/install/Database-Installation

• https://github.com/TrinityCore/TrinityCore/releases
• Download the latest TDB 335 .7z with a web browser

• Extract TDB_full_world_335.sql to Release folder

explorer "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build\bin\Release"

• Last commit: Jul 28, 2021 68bf7e6
• New commits check
• Upstream authserver.conf.dist (raw)
• Last updated: 2024/10/14

COPY /Y "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build\bin\Release\authserver.conf.dist" "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build\bin\Release\authserver.conf"

MKDIR "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\authserver.conf.d"

notepad "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\authserver.conf.d\localhost-authserver.conf"

[authserver]
MySQLExecutable = "C:\Program Files\MariaDB 11.5\bin\mariadb.exe"
LoginDatabaseInfo = "localhost;3306;authserver;x;authserver"
Updates.EnableDatabases = 1

• Last commit: Feb 16, 2023 e11613e
• New commits check
• Upstream worldserver.conf.dist (raw)
• Last updated: 2024/10/14

COPY /Y "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build\bin\Release\worldserver.conf.dist" "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build\bin\Release\worldserver.conf"

MKDIR "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\worldserver.conf.d"

notepad "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\worldserver.conf.d\localhost-worldserver.conf"

[worldserver]
MySQLExecutable = "C:\Program Files\MariaDB 11.5\bin\mariadb.exe"
LoginDatabaseInfo = "localhost;3306;authserver;x;authserver"
WorldDatabaseInfo = "localhost;3306;worldserver;x;worldserver"
CharacterDatabaseInfo = "localhost;3306;characters;x;characters"
Quests.LowLevelHideDiff = -1
Quests.HighLevelHideDiff = -1
Motd = "Welcome to your localhost server!"
Server.LoginInfo = 1

• authserver needs started at least once to create the tables and to start worldserver for account creation
• Ctrl + C to exit

CD "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build\bin\Release" && "authserver.exe" --config-dir "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\authserver.conf.d"

• Change x to password

CD "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build\bin\Release" && "worldserver.exe"

account create Espionage724 x

account set gmlevel Espionage724 3 -1

server shutdown 1

CD "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build\bin\Release" && "authserver.exe" --config-dir "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\authserver.conf.d"

CD "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build\bin\Release" && "worldserver.exe" --config-dir "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\worldserver.conf.d"