Hail is broken!!

[EmanonCow]

perl --version
outputs what?

[Darkonig]

More to the point, you have not said what version of the emulator you are trying to use or whether you are running the binary or compiling yourself.

[codyscafe7]

im using 7.0-992, also what do you mean by compiling you mean when i click on start.bat or what? im using perl 5.8.8.820.and by outputs you mean?

[techguy84]

perl 5.8.8.820

This version of perl does not allow command line installations of the needed components like IO stringy and DBD-Mysql. When you open the Command line from your start menu and type in perl, it should bring up a Perl Interface with a Windows GUI. From this point you have to enable searchign for all packages and then in the text box in the top, type in the packages needed by the emulator. For more info my PDF guide as it points out everything.

You have to make sure that you select to search all packages though. If you do not choose to look at all packages, you will find one package easy, one will come up not exactly as it says it should be, and the other will be no where to be found.

RULES: None of the packages needed are preinstalled, and they WILL have the same name as what is reference in the wiki guide and in the PDF guide.

If you are having trouble witht that version, use this link to download a older versoin of Perl that has the command line interface for installing perl packages.

http://www.activestate.com/store/download_file.aspx?binGUID=5f03b75f-2bf0-4380-99b2-d55cff4bc233

To use this, install as normal, making sure to select adding to Windows PATH, and then open up the command prompt and type in perl. Once its up and your able to enter commands type

Install "Package Name"

Where Package name is the names of the three packages from the guide.

This may be completly useless post, but I have seen roughly four users have issues with perl becuase of the new GUI's stupid package managment feautres, but I still recommend using it as it works when used properly and it is a newer up-to-date version.

[John Adams]

Not that this has a thing to do with the original post... but when I made my server, I didn't feel like installing everything completely. So I picked out perl58.dll, threw it into the server exe folder, and quests work.

Not sure what else I am missing, since I haven't fully tested all aspects. I just hate the fact you have to install all these packages to get one thing to work. And I keep remembering a rumor that perl was no longer needed - but I think that was bogus

[ksmith08]

Here's my two cents worth (coming from someone going through the process of setting up a new server.)

Are your quests and maps in the correct directories? I made the simple mistake of extracting the files into a sub directories in the folders, and had the identical symptoms. I could not hail or interact in any way with the NPC's.

[x-scythe]

wow, kind of amazing to see devn00b and image posting here
i dont come here like...ever anymore. forums are dead and i dont recognize anyone that is posting here.

in regards to your problem... i just skimmed through this briefly so sorry if you already tried this (too much to read) but did you try the npcid.pl method like image suggested? thats how i always did it


and btw, shouldnt this be in the quest Q&A section? does this forum still have moderators? haha