Need help building liyunfan1223's AzerothCore fork with mod-playerbots on Synology NAS Docker

[aaron-rigby]

Problem:
I'm trying to build a Docker image of AzerothCore with playerbots on my Synology NAS DS918+, but the build keeps failing. I specifically need the playerbots module (not just standard AzerothCore) as the whole point is to have AI players to make the world feel alive for family play.
What I've tried:

Created a Dockerfile that clones liyunfan1223's fork and adds mod-playerbots
Used -j2 for compilation due to 4GB RAM limitation
Build fails at 13% with: fatal error: no member named 'GetTargetIcon' in 'Group' in ChatFilter.cpp

My Setup:

Hardware: Synology DS918+ NAS

CPU: Intel Celeron J3455 (4 cores)
RAM: 4GB DDR3L (planning upgrade to 16GB)
Storage: 14TB volume with 4TB free + 250GB SSD cache

Docker: Synology Container Manager
Build environment: Ubuntu 22.04 base image

My current Dockerfile:

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FROM ubuntu:22.04
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

Dependencies installation (working fine)

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y
git cmake make gcc g++ clang
libmysqlclient-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev
libreadline-dev libncurses-dev libboost-all-dev
mysql-server p7zip-full curl wget

WORKDIR /azerothcore

Clone liyunfan1223's fork

RUN git clone --branch master --single-branch https://github.com/liyunfan1223/azerothcore-wotlk.git source

Clone playerbots module

RUN git clone https://github.com/liyunfan1223/mod-playerbots.git source/modules/mod-playerbots

Build with reduced parallel jobs for 4GB RAM

WORKDIR /azerothcore/build
RUN cmake ../source/
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/azerothcore/env/dist
-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/usr/bin/clang
-DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/usr/bin/clang++
-DWITH_WARNINGS=1
-DTOOLS_BUILD=db-only
-DSCRIPTS=static
-DMODULES=static

RUN make -j2 && make install

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Questions:

Is there a specific commit/branch combination of liyunfan1223's fork and mod-playerbots that are known to work together?

The GetTargetIcon function seems to be missing - is this a version mismatch between the core and module?

Should I be using a different branch of the playerbot module?

Has anyone successfully built this combination recently? What versions did you use?

Thanks for your preemptive help!

[sudlud]

Synology docker is ancient, that was at least the issue when I had tried ac docker on it

[aaron-rigby]

I can get standard Azerothcore workign fine, its the playerbots thats the problem

[opicron]

@aaron-rigby look few comment below for working script. Synology docker works fine with playerbots moldule and azerothcore playermod branch build.

[aaron-rigby]

ok, so synology is the problem? I was goign to setup a custom server in the next few weeks. Maybe i wait till that to rebuild a playerbot server

[virgo77]

Hi!
Sorry, I'm a bit late to reply here :-/

Synology NASes (and NASes in general) are not really intended for this kind of usage. Maybe the "big" one, like a rack NAS with a big badass CPU as it can be useful for heavy instructions (SQL, iSCSI, etc.)

Yours is a bit light, even it has 4 Cores and 16 GiB of RAM.

If you need the PlayerBot Branch (and I imagine you want to play on your own (like I do!) with bots to simulate online players), you need to pull the specific branch (pay attention: Liyunfan1223 had recently rename its GitHub to mod-playerbots):

• go to the disk where you want to install the PlayerBot Emulator
• run this command: git clone https://github.com/mod-playerbots/azerothcore-wotlk.git --branch Playerbot XXXXX (where XXXXX is the name of the folder it will pull into. So, if you don't care, by default the folder will be named 'azerothcore-wotlk'. But you may be interseted to give a specific name. So replace XXXXX by the name you want. For example: git clone https://github.com/mod-playerbots/azerothcore-wotlk.git --branch Playerbot PlayerBots

For updating:

• go to your PlayerBot root folder
• then execute this command: git pull origin Playerbot

PlayerBot-Mod:

• go to your PlayerBot/modules folder
• pull the PlayerBot Module: git clone https://github.com/mod-playerbots/mod-playerbots.git

Once you cloned the repository and the module, you will need to compile. And you can follow the same commands used for AzerothCore. Just adapt, if needed.

NOTE:
this is the AzerothCore forum, not the PlayerBot one. So, if you need help, please use the PlayerBot Issue/Forum 👍

Best Regards,
V.

[opicron]

My ds1628xs+ runs fine with Azerothcore playerbot branch, playerbot modules (20 bots). The docker runs at 30% cpu and the overal system CPU is at 6%.

[sudlud]

idk just wanted to leave that comment here :p also you need a custom fork for playerbots, can't just take the original ac repo and add mod-playerbots. It's written in the module description

[opicron]

Hiya, I just finished a script to build Azerothcore with Playerbots on my Synology DS1628xs+. I can share the script, custom .env and custom docker-compose.override.yml if you want. You dont need a dockerfile tbh. Just build the official playerbot branch with modules and use the correct docker-compose.override.yml.

[opicron]

azeroth.zip

Here is the script I use. Do note that after running the script you'll have to run sudo docker-compose up -d ac-authserver and sudo docker-compose up -d ac-worldserver

[opicron]

Do note that the docker build nicely places all module and regular configuration (.dist) files in azeroth-wotlk/env/dist/etc/ folder. I mount the config files seperately to have them seperately save between builds etc.

[opicron]

One more thing, if you use Synology firewall, make sure to enable traffic between the docker containers. I check the IP range of the created database docker and create a firewall rule to accept traffic from that IP range with a huge subnet. 172.17.0.0 and 255.240.0.0 or 192.38.0.0 with 255.255.0.0 for example.