Back to the drawing board? (perl)

[fault]

Well After tackling a stupid database issue which prevented logins, i went to check out quests/npc's etc and to my surprise, 5.8.7 doesn;t seem to work on windows either?


I find it completely strange, I even dropped the perl/bin directory in the eqemu directory and no go.



Just out of curiosity, we are not *forced* to have eqemu files IN C:\EQEmu are we? being I am a fan of cleanliness and clean code I got my server files in a directory that is the same name as the server.

C:\Users\Spre>perl --version

This is perl, v5.8.7 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 14 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2005, Larry Wall

Binary build 815 [211909] provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveState.com
ActiveState is a division of Sophos.
Built Nov 2 2005 08:44:52

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'. If you have access to the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.

C:\Users\Spre>perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 7) configuration:
Platform:
osname=MSWin32, osvers=5.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
uname=''
config_args='undef'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=de
fine
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cl', ccflags ='-nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -
DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL_IMPLICIT_
CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX',
optimize='-MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1',
cppflags='-DWIN32'
ccversion='12.00.8804', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='__int64', lseeksi
ze=8
alignbytes=8, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt:ref,icf -libpath:"C:
\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine86'
libpth=\lib
libs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32
.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib uuid.lib ws2_
32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib
perllibs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comd
lg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib uuid.lib
ws2_32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib
libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perl58.lib
gnulibc_version='undef'
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt:ref,icf -
libpath:"C:\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine86'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES
USE_SITECUSTOMIZE PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
Locally applied patches:
ActivePerl Build 815 [211909]
Iin_load_module moved for compatibility with build 806
PerlEx support in CGI::Carp
Less verbose ExtUtils::Install and Pod::Find
instmodsh upgraded from ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.25
Patch for CAN-2005-0448 from Debian with modifications
Upgrade to Time-HiRes-1.76
25774 Keys of %INC always use forward slashes
25747 Accidental interpolation of $@ in Pod::Html
25362 File::Path::mkpath resets errno
25181 Incorrect (X)HTML generated by Pod::Html
24999 Avoid redefinition warning for MinGW
24699 ICMP_UNREACHABLE handling in Net::Ping
21540 Fix backward-compatibility issues in if.pm
Built under MSWin32
Compiled at Nov 2 2005 08:44:52
@INC:
C:/Perl/lib
C:/Perl/site/lib
.