Well I really don't think it's a build issue if I selected the option and got no errors in Cmake or VS right?

And that is where I got the dependencies, but I'll double check it in case. Thanks.

Ok figured out my issue and it was something so simple and stupid, but easy to miss I guess. I had rebuilt my server to add the LUA option, and in the process had renamed my old EQEmuServer folder to EQEmuServerOld. Well after all was said and done, I never updated my server start batch file shortcut and it was still launching my old build. /facepalm

Fixed the shortcut/batch file to launch from the new EQEmuServer folder as it should and NPCs are talking and such normally now.

Thanks for the assistance even if I technically didn't need it. =)