[fzzzty]

Sorry, I was kind of just rambling.

I went through the whole tutorial. I don't remember exactly what I did that first time, through I suspect I did everything it said since I'm a noob, but it worked that time. The only updates I think are how to get maps and the newest DB (the one in there on Google Drive seemed like it was very old, but I don't recall really). Step 8 mentions that, but step 17/18 is where you run world, and I don't recall it prompting at any time. The first time through, the server came up and I could log in, but couldn't enter a zone (no maps). The trouble started after that when I started using just eqemu_update by itself ("eqemu_update.pl installer"). After I get my script working I can revert my VM and start over and see if I can repro what I did.

I found the DB problem, the script was using a \\ instead of / in a path (in lots of paths actually), so it wasn't finding the PEQ DB SQL files, so I threaded File::Spec->catfile through it to generate portable paths. I didn't touch the Windows specific stuff since I can't test on Windows.

P.S.: Your build idea is great.