Quests

[Aramid]

The quest file itself for boomba should say this, minus the comments...

sub EVENT_SAY

{ 

if($text=~/Hail/i)
 {
 quest::say("Hullo!!  Me is Boomba.  Me make da bestest pickles in da Norrath. Me gots da dwarfies. da halflings. da humies - me even gots da pixie pickles!!  Of course all of dem were baddies from da dunjuns.  Da guards say it gud ta pickle da baddies.");
 }
}

If this is what ya have, then something must be wrong with the perl install....
Try uninstalling it and reinstalling Perl.

[John Adams]

Originally Posted by maverick3n1

Alright, I pulled up quest logs, and here is what I found in there for a bunch of quests...

[09.10. - 12:05:25] WARNING: error compiling quest file quests/freportw/Boomba_the_Big.pl: Perl runtime error: Undefined subroutine &main::eval_file called.

Does that mean there is something wrong with the quest file, or does that mean Perl isn't communicating properly with MySQL?

Did you do all the IO Stringy things that Perl needs when you first installed? There are 3 commands to install stuff into Perl once it itself is installed.

[maverick3n1]

Yes, it was something like DBD-mysql, IO-Stringy, and one other thing, don't recall what the last was off the top of my head. When I try to run them again they all say that they are already installed.

[fathernitwit]

none of the perl modules are required anymore unless you build a special build.

[maverick3n1]

Well damn.. then here I'm looking at perl as being some evil spawn of Satan for not letting my quests work, and the modules aren't even important.. I've re-installed perl each time, but each time I did and went to run the modules, it said they were still installed, so it seems almost as though when uninstalling perl, it doesn't remove all aspects of itself (IE Perl Modules)... Dunno if I'm successfully getting a full re-install.

[maverick3n1]

Any other suggestions? Still no working quests...

[sdabbs65]

Originally Posted by maverick3n1

Any other suggestions? Still no working quests...

I think this is what your looking for...

http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/sho...4&page=1&pp=15

[sdabbs65]

Originally Posted by sdabbs65

I think this is what your looking for...

http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/sho...4&page=1&pp=15

I installed 0.7.0-845 just for kicks, and yes it appears to be broken for perl quests.
I tried downgradeing perl to older versions and everthing and I still get the following error's in the logfiles.

09.15. - 22:28:10] WARNING: error compiling quest file quests/nexus/152018.pl: Perl runtime error: Undefined subroutine &main::eval_file called.
(reverting to default questfile)
[09.15. - 22:28:10] WARNING: error compiling quest file quests/nexus/152017.pl: Perl runtime error: Undefined subroutine &main::eval_file called.
(reverting to default questfile)
[09.15. - 22:28:10] WARNING: error compiling quest file quests/nexus/152016.pl: Perl runtime error: Undefined subroutine &main::eval_file called.
(reverting to default questfile)
[09.15. - 22:28:10] WARNING: error compiling quest file quests/nexus/152015.pl: Perl runtime error: Undefined subroutine &main::eval_file called.
(reverting to default questfile)
[09.15. - 22:28:10] WARNING: error compiling quest file quests/nexus/152014.pl: Perl runtime error: Undefined subroutine &main::eval_file called.

[maverick3n1]

So I'm not insane then.. thank god.. thought it was time for me to shoot myself *grin*

So the question is, why does it seem some others are using quests just fine with the same version? Is there an update I missed that fixes quests.. simple command line added to the SQL server? Or are there non-perl quests, and they are running those instead of Perl quests?

[Aramid]

I D/L'd the pre-compiled version from here, and the quests work fine for me...

If your compiling your own, are you setting zone to DebugPerl in the configuration Manager before compiling?

[maverick3n1]

As stated previously, I used Cavedude's pack to setup, and then just updated from the version Cavedude has up to 0.7.0.845. I'm not compiling anything

[sdabbs65]

Originally Posted by maverick3n1

As stated previously, I used Cavedude's pack to setup, and then just updated from the version Cavedude has up to 0.7.0.845. I'm not compiling anything

me nither I used the binarys from here. hmmm quite the mystery as
this seems to be the case since 7.0.822.
heres something wecan do to test it tho.
download 0.7.0-785 and see if you have an issue with that.

[maverick3n1]

If I were to do that, I've already done the SQL updates for the newer version. I don't know if it will work for the older version...

[maverick3n1]

Update:

I still have never been able to get quests to work on Cavedude's install, however I just did a brand new install on another computer, using the PEQ and Mysql 5 instead of 4 (Cavedude's wanted 4 based on the instructions), and everything works fine.