Add Linux development release.

[mserajnik]

🍰 Pullrequest

This adds a Linux development release (amd64-only) similar to the existing Windows release, as requested by @NickTyrer.

The release is built on Ubuntu 24.04 and published as dev-linux-amd64-<sha>.tar.gz under a new linux_latest moving release tag.

I decided to make the release somewhat portable instead of relying on system dependencies, but it is not fully statically linked. Instead, the package bundles non-glibc runtime libraries in lib/ and uses PatchELF to set relative RPATHs, so binaries under bin/ can find the bundled libraries after extraction.

glibc and the dynamic loader are not bundled, so the archive is expected to work on amd64 systems with glibc 2.39 or newer. Alpine/musl and older glibc systems are not supported.

The workflow includes a small smoke test (which I can also remove if unwanted) that extracts the archive in a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 Docker container, runs realmd --version and mangosd --version, and checks the packaged ELF files with ldd. I have not done a full runtime test with a configured database and extracted client data, so I marked this as draft for now. (@NickTyrer: if you could try this, it would be great.)

Edit: I did some testing and for me everything worked, Nick tested too, so this should be fine functionality-wise, removed the draft status.

Proof

• None

Issues

• Closes Add Linux Build Github Action #2979

How2Test

1. Download the test release from my fork.
2. Extract it and run from the archive root:

cd vmangos-linux-amd64

3. Copy and edit the config files:

cp etc/realmd.conf.dist etc/realmd.conf
cp etc/mangosd.conf.dist etc/mangosd.conf

4. Adjust DB credentials and other settings as required for your setup.
5. Put extracted client data under the archive root, matching the default DataDir = "." (or put it elsewhere and adjust DataDir accordingly):

vmangos-linux-amd64/
  maps/
  mmaps/
  vmaps/
  5875/
    dbc/

6. Start realmd and mangosd from the archive root:

./bin/realmd
./bin/mangosd

Todo / Checklist

• Test if it actually works

[NickTyrer]

Brilliant, I will test this weekend. Thanks

[NickTyrer]

Tested and working fine, thanks.

[0blu]

Since it is built with OpenSSL3 it is currently ""blocked"" by #3402

[0blu]

@mserajnik is it possible to have just one tag?
Right now we have latest and linux_latest

[mserajnik]

@mserajnik is it possible to have just one tag?

Right now we have latest and linux_latest

Possible, but requires quite a bit of restructuring.

I can tackle that, but will probably take a few weeks as I'm busy with other stuff at the moment.

[ratkosrb]

And don't forget we also need a MacOS build action! 👼