Help completing server install, please.

[Tegila]

So, I'm at the point now where I've used teh automated isntaller to get about 75% of the way through (datawise anyway) but never completed due to one thing or another, almost always an admin privilege issue despite beign admin and running admin etc etc, or a windows install this or that can't complete or can't launch. The fails there always being on one or another install of sql, visual studio etc, or the launching of an exe.

I now also have a server built manually using the guide, that is at least half there, but there are some aspects I can't quite understand what is said in the guide, OR, the biggest part...error configuring and thus generating in cmake. It keeps telling me I have no visual studio detected, but I have perfectly functioning community 2017, exactly as listed in the guide, so i'm at a loss what to do about that.

to get to this point i've been all over the place on different machines and os's and sites to get things installed and updated so theyd work, but can never get everythign to work in one place (closest is the manual one, but then no studio detected error).

Now, it seems the auto installer works almost backwars from the manual one, that or the fails on my auto were early and the ones im experiencing manually are later, because I have full map and zone files, most if not all the individual files like world.exe etc etc.

I know I have a full server here but it's in pieces, and I can't put the puzzle together because i'm not sure what is and isn't required altogether. Guide says should have this many folders and 21 files at this point, but which 21 files? and I thought I had everything good on one of my autoinstalls, until i got win32 errors on every exe, and i don't think the other programs all isntalled.

not sure what exactly i need, a list of folders, their approximate size and list of files that together make it good? or... idk. A way to fix the cmake not finding visual studio would be great, as that is what halted the progress there. The 2 methods go about things in different orders and name folders etc differently so i cant really tell what i am missing in the end to have a functioning server (that can be updated and modified as needed not just launched and forgotten of course)

ok the biggest barrier being the cmake error, let me explain that better:

configuring from eq/source to eq/source/build i get error in configuration process, project files may be invalid...

cmake_configuration_types value: debug;release;minsizerel;relwithdebinfo highlighted in red

and in the bottom box:

(red text) CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt;38 (PROJECT):
Generator

Visual Studio 15 2017

could not find any instance of Visual Studio.


(black text) configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
see also 'c:/eq/source/build/cmakefiles/cmakeoutput.log'.


the accompanying error box that if i follow the writeup for manual install, i close and reconfigure until red is gone i can then generate...but i can't. the red highlight of cmake_configuration_types goes away, but the red text in the bottom box about not finding visual studio won't go away.

if i then click generate i get the same error message about files may be invalid.


Now, I've done this with visual studio open, and with it closed, that didn't make a difference.

The only thing i can think might help, maybe, is if i reinstalled studio from within eq/installs folder as most of the other programs were done. Studio was not stated to ever put in installs folder, so i hadnt, but almost everythign else was.

EDIT: reading another manual walkthrough on my phone, it does say to put in installs, but the one I was working from did not. Will try reinstalling from installs folder and see how it goes.

EDIT2: so that meant nothing. uninstalled, uninstalled cmake too, reinstalled studio and cmake. says keep all their defaults, so they both isntalled in xprograms x86, but cmake still can not seem to find studio. What else could I try for this?

I currently have 4 folders in c:/eq eqemuserver, installs, source, and sql.

inside installs i have the install files for activeperl 5.12.3, cmake 3.11.0, git 2.16.2, and xampp win32 7.1.15

my source folder has 18 folders, 2 unnamed txt docs, 2 named text docs, a yml, an md, and a license file

SQL folder has 9 files (walkthrough suggested 11) but they seem to be correct

and the one that's giving me the most fits, inside my eqemuserver folder i have:
6 folders, at least half of which is pasted there from previous autoinstalls etc because the cmake error wouldnt let me continue. it has about 25 separate files as well nearly all of which i also pasted in (half at the behest of the manual walkthrough)


Can anyone make any sense of this? what is glaringly missing? what can i do about cmake not detecting my visual studio install? is there really no hope of patching this together? it should take like 15 minutes to install after the other stuff is there (perl, sql, etc) but i've spent way too many hours running into deadends everywehre. I've got to have just about everything needed, but i don't know how to put it all together the rest of the way, or get cmake to work right.

thanks in advance if anyone can make sense of this. haven't gotten any responses to my previous posts on the install issues, but this one should be something someone can help with, i hope. one thing or another at least lol.