AllLobby on Linux

[fuzzylunkin1]

This is a guide to installing AllLobby on Linux (tested on Ubuntu Karmic and Gentoo). Only the beta builds of the lobby was tested. I assume you know what you're doing with this stuff to be able to figure out how to use a retail build with this guide.

Install Wine. The version used to write this guide was 1.3.37, but it should work with many previous versions.

Install DirectX 9 and the VC++ Libraries

Get winetricks. It's included in many distributions with Wine, or it might be included in your distributions software repository. You can also download the latest version here.

First, try and see if it's installed. Simply run this (if it doesn't work, it won't hurt to download it):

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winetricks d3dx9 vcrun2008

If you need to dowload it, move to where you want it and run the following:

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wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks
./winetricks d3dx9 vcrun2008

Replace vcrun2008 with vcrun2005 or vcrun2010, depending on the version your AllLobby was built with. It won't hurt to install all three.

If your binaries were built with a very recent version of the DirectX 9 SDK, winetricks might not have the required version. In that case, you'll have to install DirectX manually.


Configuration File

Make a file configuration file for your lobby/game (they use the same one). If you wish for others to use your lobby you will need to make it publicly available on a website. Here is an example configuration file:

C:\local.cfg:

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[Allegiance]
PublicLobby=192.168.10.15
PublicMessageURL=http://fazdev.alleg.net/FAZ/motdR5.mdl
LobbyClientPort=2302
LobbyServerPort=2304


; THIS IS A VALID CONFIG FILE

Where 192.168.10.15 is the address of the hosted lobby. You could easily host it on a website, such as https://dl.dropbox.com/u/550731/local.cfg, and use that in the following registry entries.


Registry entries

Run:

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wine regedit

Add these keys and values:
QUOTE [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Allegiance\1.1]
"CfgFile"="C:\local.cfg"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Allegiance\1.0\Server]
"ASGS_ON"=DWORD:0
"ASGS_RANKS_ON"=DWORD:1[/quote]
For some reason the beta lobby looks in 1.0 for ASGS_ON.

Run AllLobby

Extract the "AllLobby" package anywhere you want (hey, it's your organisation, not mine). I don't currently have a download location for AllLobby. If you can build your own, you're in luck! Otherwise, find a copy (and give it to me so I can update this).

Run:

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wine AllLobby.exe -RegServer
wine AllLobby.exe

You should get output similar to this:
QUOTE fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on HDA ATI HDMI, disabling mixer
Running as an executable.
fixme:ole:CoInitializeSecurity (0x674038,-1,(nil),(nil),4,3,(nil),0,(nil)) - stub!
Allegiance Lobby started
Creating Lobby
Registry String Missing/Invalid: GameInfoServers
Initializing Lobby
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0xfffffffe): stub
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0xfffffffe): stub
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0xfffffffe): stub
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0xfffffffe): stub
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0xfffffffe): stub
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0xfffffffe): stub
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl unsupported WS_IOCTL cmd (28000002)
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl unsupported WS_IOCTL cmd (98000007)
fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on HDA ATI HDMI, disabling mixer
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0xfffffffe): stub
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0xfffffffe): stub
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0xfffffffe): stub
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0xfffffffe): stub
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0xfffffffe): stub
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0xfffffffe): stub
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl unsupported WS_IOCTL cmd (28000002)
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl unsupported WS_IOCTL cmd (98000007)
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl unsupported WS_IOCTL cmd (28000002)
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl unsupported WS_IOCTL cmd (98000007)
Running Lobby
---------Press Q to exit---------
Ready for clients/servers.[/quote]
You're done! A lobby is rather useless without any servers on it, though. Windows servers should connect fine to this instance AllLobby until we can get AllSrv running on Linux.

I've not yet tried running AllLobby as a service. Any tips?


EDIT:
You might have to disable IPv6. Follow the second part of this guide to do so.

[fuzzylunkin1]

I could use some input on how well this works. We don't even have a guide for installing AllLobby on Windows (not one I could find), so I kind of had to make this up as I went.

I don't know the steps to make this into a "production" type thing, so it would be great for a more qualified voice to come around these parts .


Next up is AllSrv (without AllSrvUI), which runs fine. Going to talk to juckto about getting this stuff on the wiki.

[finnbryant]

fuzz already knows, but ill stick this here for posterity, i just tested it successfully too.

couldnt test if the reboot was really nesessary since i needed to restart to get ipv6 disabled (was definitely needed in karmic for me).

this might be a better intruction on disabling it: How To Disable IPv6 In Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala (choose "The Hard Way", its not really that hard though)

[fuzzylunkin1]

Hey folks, updated this, replaced some dead links, should be easier to install dependencies now.

I need a copy of the R5 lobby. If anyone could build R5 and the latest R6, please send them to me so I can link them!

EDIT:
I'm unsure about IPv6 with the latest Wine. Need to test.