Howto: Run the Freelancer game (SP, MP) and also the SERVER including FLHook on LINUX with Wine

I remember last time i tried - MP works only at local machine.
No connection from others at the same network.
No connection from outside. So quiestion is still open.

Better to try OSS FLServer just for PvP but take a note - no missions and npcs.

Just tested (also on debian jessie), using playonlinux to install wine 1.9.14-staging with directplay and mfc42.
flserver started fine except for my flhook 2.0 (compiled with vc2015, so may need some extra overrides)
however the server doesnt show in lan when i try connecting from a win client.
Running the client on linux the server list always shows empty, no matter if i run the server on windows (on lan), manually enter a remote servers IP in the shortcut, or run both client and server on the same machine.

It defiantly must be a change between the staging and devel versions of 1.9.14

Update: apparently not, stupid mistake not including a backslash before the : in the server:port specification, however other servers still arent shown (even skipping POL and using 1.9.14-devel with wintricks), its also reverted to being stuck on the ‘loading’ bar on a fully patched server.
Manually installing the vc2015 redist i was able to get hook to load though (its not in winetricks yet, and no need to override with native dll)

@Schmackbolzen i dont know, because it was long time ago and i have noticed by netstat that server running local sockets instead of regular tcp/ip network.

So anyway big thanks for the post.
I will try LD way because i have Debian 8 too

To be sure that i start from the beginning I’ve made a clean wine configuration by rm -rf .wine in /home/<user>/ and I uninstalled my current wine and followed the instructions for Debian.

IMPORTANT NOTE HERE:

If you use some mods be careful about the files and folders names, Linux filesystem is case sensitive, so you can have two goods.ini and Goods.ini in a folder or have two fx and FX folders, be sure that the filenames are exactly matching.</user>

Yeah! I’m connected from one pc to another - same network

Now need to get to work and check by internet :]

P.S. I don’t want the hook - it is later maybe…

Success!! Linux MP over Internet now works!
Tested from Work my Linux Freelancer Home server using Internet

Thanks again Schmackbolzen for the clear and effective tutorial

I can confirm that HeIIoween, i’ve seen your server on www.flserver.de this afternoon

That’s really great

Reporting Mod with custom FLHook 2.0 ( vs2008 ) with DSAce anticheat running well

Public FLShell won’t work - if someone using it…

Reporting FLHook 3.0 working …
… without condata.dll and event.dll even if msvc*90.dll’s are present.
So, the fix, i think, to rebuild them with Visual Studio 2015

Works at Mac too I’m using Winebottler

hey there.
sorry for digging out this old threat, but i would like to get flserver running on my linux machine and nothing i try works so far.

is there still someone who has this running? which wine-version, which dlls installed and which windows-version?

i tried with the newest wine 3.19 and with the 1.9.14 mentioned in the threat. the server seems to run, but i cannot see it in freelancer on the same machine
any help highly appreciated.

Hey,

I tried on debian 9.5 with wine-3.0.3 directplay and mfc42 dlls

I can see other servers and mine on the same machine but can’t connect, it’s like the ping is infinite, so the network thing seems to work anyway.

Do you see other servers like me ?
You can check your firewall looking for blocked requests, i recommend you to enable logging on iptables for troubleshooting the firewall. Something like this as root :

iptables -A INPUT -m limit --limit 5/min -j LOG --log-prefix "iptables INPUT DROP: " --log-level 7
iptables -A OUTPUT -m limit --limit 5/min -j LOG --log-prefix "iptables INPUT DROP: " --log-level 7

And look at the kernel messages with dmesg -T | grep iptables (as root too)

Or disable your firewall for the test.

Maybe you can try using virtual machine (or another pc on the same network) as a server and your physical pc as a client and see if it works.

EDIT : Tested on a server hosted in virtual machine in the same network and it works.

Ok, nevermind, from on to other pc its working now, just not at the same pc. Thanks!

Reporting:

• OS MX Linux (Debian)
• FLHook 3.1 with all plugs works
• FLShell Public works too