• 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

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

• 2024/07/24: Git, Visual Studio 2022, MySQL, Boost, CMake, OpenSSL

• Any SETX usage needs a Windows user re-sign
• SQLyog for GUI database management
• MariaDB is untested ³⁾

• https://www.git-scm.com/download/win
• Last tested: Git-2.45.2-64-bit.exe

• Git from the command line and also from 3rd-party software

• https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=Community&channel=Release&version=VS2022

• Install needs Modified after the auto-install
• Desktop development with C++
• Any components that doesn't remove Desktop dev C++ is optional (Pilot, Sanitizers, Live, etc)

• https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/windows/
• Last tested: mysql-installer-community-8.0.39.0.msi

• Server Only
• Development Computer
• Uncheck Open Windows Firewall ports for network access

SETX /M path "%path%;%ProgramFiles%\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\bin"

• 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_b1-msvc-14.3-64.exe

SETX /M "BOOST_ROOT" "C:/local/boost_1_86_0_b1"

• https://cmake.org/download/
• Last tested: cmake-3.30.1-windows-x86_64.msi

• https://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html ( not Light)
• Last tested: Win64OpenSSL-3_3_1.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\trinity-335\src"

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

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

• 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

• Visual Studio 17 2022

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

cmake-gui

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

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

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

COPY /Y "%ProgramFiles%\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\lib\libmysql.dll" "%UserProfile%\Projects\trinity-335\build\bin\Release\"

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

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

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

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

cmake-gui

• 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\trinity-335\build\bin\Release"

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

COPY /Y "%UserProfile%\Projects\trinity-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\trinity-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\trinity-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\trinity-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 "4"

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

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

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

• 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\trinity-335\build\bin\Release"

• See TrinityCore 3.3.5 localhost confs

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

CD "%UserProfile%\Projects\trinity-335\build\bin\Release" && "authserver.exe"

• Change x to password

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

account create Espionage724 x

account set gmlevel Espionage724 3 -1

server shutdown 1

CD "%UserProfile%\Projects\trinity-335\build\bin\Release" && "authserver.exe"

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