Game server for Ultima Online.

This is an experimental fork of SphereServer. Since so many (and sometimes radical) changes were done, it was impossible to work on the main repo.
Most notable changes (right now) are:

• Bug fixes and heavy changing of some internal behaviours, when needed, to achieve better speed and stability.
• Support for CMake, which is now the standard way to generate updated build and project files.
• Support for 64 bits architecture and TDM-GCC compiler for Windows.
• Updated external libraries: MySQL, SQLite, LibEv.
• Added (and still adding) comments to the code to make it more understandable.
• Reorganization of directories and files, avoiding big files with thousands of lines.
• Refactoring of the code, updating to most recent programming standards and to the conventions described below.

You need to build makefiles (and project files if you wish) with CMake for both Linux (GCC) and Windows (MSVC and TDM-GCC).
Both 32 and 64 bits compilation are supported.
No pre-built project files included.

Install mysql library:

• sudo apt-get install libmysqld-dev
• sudo apt-get install libmysql++ libmysql++-dev
• sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev:i386
  If you want to compile to a 64 bits architecture, you'll need also:
• sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev:x86_64

Required libraries (Windows):
dbghelp.dll Newer OS versions have it by default on system folders so don't mess with it, but for some old OS you may need it, so there is an old one (32 bits) in /required libraries/dbghelp.dll.
libmysql.dll placed on /required libraries/x86/libmysql.dll for 32 bits builds or in /required libraries/x86_64/libmysql.dll for 64 bits builds.

• Make sure you can compile and run the program before pushing a commit.
• Rebasing instead of pulling the project is a better practice to avoid unnecessary "merge branch master" commits.
• Removing/Changing/Adding anything that was working in one way for years should be followed by an ini setting if the changes cannot be replicated from script to keep some backwards compatibility.
• Comment your code, add informations about its logic. It's very important since it helps the other to understand your work.
• Be sure to use Sphere's custom datatypes and the string formatting macros described in src/common/datatypes.h.
• When casting numeric data types, always prefer C-style casts, like (int), to C++ static_cast<int>().
• Be wary that in SphereScript unsigned values does not exist, all numbers are considered signed, and that 64 bits integers meant to be printed to or retrieved by scripts should always be signed.
• Don't use "long" except if you know why do you actually need it. Always prefer "int" or "llong". Use fixed width variables only for values that need to fit a limited range.
• For strings, use pointers:
  to "char" for strings that should always have ASCII encoding;
  to "tchar" for strings that may be ASCII or Unicode, depending from compilation settings (more info in "datatypes.h");
  to "wchar" for string that should always have Unicode encoding.

##Naming Conventions These are meant to be applied to new code and, if there's some old code not following them, it would be nice to update it.

• Pointer variables should have as first prefix "p".
• Unsigned variables should have as first (or second to "p") prefix "u".
• Boolean variables should have the prefix "f".
• Classes need to have the first letter uppercase and the prefix "C".
• Internal (mostly private) variables of a class or struct need to have the prefix "m_".
• After the prefix, the descriptive name should begin with an upper letter.

##Coding Style Conventions

• Indent with tabs of size 4.
• Use the Allman indentation style:
  while (x == y)
  {
  something();
  somethingelse();
  }
• When a single statement follows the if/else clauses, avoid the use of brackets:
  if (bTrue)
      g_Log.EventWarn("True!\n");

Copyright 2016 SphereServer development team.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").
You may not use any file of this project except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0