EQEmuShareMem.dll Problem
 

Was in a bit of a rush earlier, didn't realize I had posted to the general forum and not this one. (Had 3 or 4 browser windows open :))

Alright, I had downloaded 3.9 and was successful in getting that to work (After several hours ) With 3.10 that I just downloaded last night and tried to set up for Minilogin, I keep getting an error message concerning the new ShareMem feature when I start World.exe.

Using database 'eq' at localhost
EQEMu 0.3.10 - Newbies-L

What indicates that this is a EmuMemShare dll issue?

There's this:

"Error loading EMuShareMem.dll."

when I start up the world.exe.

That is why I was wondering if there is a specific place to put the ShareMem folder or if I'm just missing something. :)

do you even HAVE the dll? You listed the source for it

That's part of what I am asking. From unzipping the 3.10 Source and Win32 files that came out the other day, the only files that showed up in the EmuShareMem folder were these...

DLLMain.cpp, EmuShareMem.dsp, EmuShareMem.plg, Items.cpp, items.h, NPCTypes.cpp, NPCTypes.h

No .dll file.

If someone can point me to where I can get the .dll I would appreciate it. I downloaded the zip files twice and confirmed it wasn't just a corrupted first download that was missing the .dll file, the second time didn't have it either.

The source contains the code for the DLL, that is, you have to COMPILE it. The DLL itself (precompiled binary for win32) is contained in the zip file eqemu-0.3.10-win32.zip.

Try looking a little harder.

There's a problem being caused for me. I don't have a compiler. Are there any popular ones that people use for EQEmu? A link to a website with one would be great please, heh. :)

Most popular "Visual C++ 6.0", www.microsoft.com

In anycase, you need to download the binaries, they are the executables, they include everything you need.

If you don't know how to compile, or what there is to compiling than I would say.. for now, stay away from all source.

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e...2.zip?download - The link to the binaries you need!

First off, thank you to those who have posted in response to me so far. :)

I got a little off track and forgot what the main problem was/is. When I load EQW I get past the server select and load, and just when it's getting to the character select or right after creating a character, I get an "Illegal Operation" error from World.exe. That is why I was asking about the .dll because that is the only error message I had been able to spot anywhere.

Sorry to keep bugging, but any thoughts on this?

Similar Problem...
 

I had a slightly similar problem where zone.exe would crash. I am not familiar with minilogin so I may be completely off. But if you open world.exe (also open the special minilogin thing that I dont know what it is hehe) then open boot5zones.bat. It seems like it might be crashing because you didint have any zones so make sure you run boot5zones.bat. If world.exe keeps crashing it could be because you dont have the spells_en.txt file in your emu directory (that was my problem with zone.exe maybe world.exe has a similar problem). Hope that helps!

Okay, I didn't think much of it but it might be the Boot5zones.bat after all. When I start up the bat it quickly flashes the "zone 7997", "zone 7998" windows but they don't stay. I was assuming that the new version got rid of all those windows, heh... stupid me, that's why the World isn't working. The lousy zone servers won't stay up for me. :/ Thanks for nudging me back to looking into .bat file problems, Pablo. :) Everything looks good from when I edited it so I'm stuck yet again. Blah.

If it crashes its because you 1) Do not have an item db, 2) Do not have a NPCType db

do you have...
 

Do you have spells_en.txt in your emu directory? That was my problem when zone.exe crashed...

I deleted emu, put all the files in again, made sure I did everything in the readme to the letter and dled the 3.6 and 3.9 addons, and still it wouldn't work for me, so I'm just going to assume that a file was corrupted in my computer or something wasn't compatible and wait for 3.11 to come out. heh. Patched EQ yesterday so too late to try anymore with 3.10. Thanks again to everybody who tried to help me out. :)

I've noticed a problem like this when working with a start DB with no NPC spawns.

The DLL, for some reason, REQUIRES that it have at least one NPC because it's for Items and NPCs.

Make sure your DB has at least 1 item and 1 NPC. Then the DLL should load up properly.