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[AK49BWL]

To start: I run Windows 7 32 bit, just downloaded the eggdrop 1.6.20 source, downloaded Cygwin, followed every direction on this page: http://www.eggheads.org/support/egghtml/1.6.16/compiling.html#cg4 .. Compilation went perfectly, and I "installed" to C:\Temp\Eggdrop and copied the files as stated were needed on that page. Then I went here: http://eggwiki.org/Eggdrop.conf .. This is the part where I am a bit confused because of the fact that I'm running this in Windows and not Unix... The first line
#! /path/to/executable/eggdrop
is useless to me I would assume, so I deleted it. Along with that, I deleted all the comments (not the actual variables themselves, JUST the comments about them) in the config, to save on space and to make parts easier to find without searching through the comments, then following the wiki I edited to what I believe to be right for my needs. One issue I am not sure of is the usage of / or \ when it comes to path variables.. I set my eggdrop log dir to logs/eggdrop.log for example, following how it would be in Unix.. I also created a second conf for the other way using backslashes.

Now here's my problem. Eggdrop does not start at all using "eggdrop -m test.conf" from my command prompt. It does not log anything anywhere that I can find. This is all I ever see:

C:\TEMP\Eggdrop>eggdrop -m test.conf
Eggdrop v1.6.20 (C) 1997 Robey Pointer (C) 2010 Eggheads
C:\TEMP\Eggdrop>eggdrop -m test.conf
Eggdrop v1.6.20 (C) 1997 Robey Pointer (C) 2010 Eggheads
C:\TEMP\Eggdrop>eggdrop -m test.conf
Eggdrop v1.6.20 (C) 1997 Robey Pointer (C) 2010 Eggheads
C:\TEMP\Eggdrop>eggdrop -m test.conf
Eggdrop v1.6.20 (C) 1997 Robey Pointer (C) 2010 Eggheads
C:\TEMP\Eggdrop>eggdrop -m test.conf
Eggdrop v1.6.20 (C) 1997 Robey Pointer (C) 2010 Eggheads
C:\TEMP\Eggdrop>And repeat.

So I don't know if I missed something somewhere, or what's going on, but it gives me no errors, no log file to check for errors in, and it doesn't even stay running long enough to show up in Windows Task Manager, much less even connect to my server. I even re-wrote the config file twice, one of them keeping all the comments and the #! /path/to/executable/eggdrop part... Though I wasn't sure what to edit THAT to... Nothing works. I even tried running from the default conf that comes with the source, expecting it to give me the "Please make sure you edit your config file completely."... But no dice!
I feel kind of stupid about all this now because I'm usually really good at figuring things out but this has got me ripping my hair out.

Let me know if you need to see the config file, or if maybe you can tell me where I may have gone wrong...

[raider2k]

start your eggdrop with the flag -n as well
eggdrop -mn test.conf

and see if there are any errors. and yes, most probably you ran into some kind of error when you did the config.

[AK49BWL]

Nope. I even recompiled the whole thing and it's just not outputting ANYTHING... Except the version and copyright info. That's it. No log, no ... nothing. Doesn't matter WHAT I put on that command line, only -h makes any difference, too bad it's completely useless in this regard.


Is Windows 7 supported, or is it the problem?

[raider2k]

put back the very first line you deleted from the conf
the best idea anyway is to start over with a new conf, dont delete anything, dont try to set any special (or even windows) paths and try again.

[AK49BWL]

Well I went a different route this time.. Went ahead and downloaded a pre-compiled Windrop and tried my config file with it.. Lo and behold, it worked... So obviously it was something wrong with the compile I did, or it just didn't like me

Thanks for the responses though, I really appreciate the attempts to help

[raider2k]

at least figured
dont forget to add solved to your thread when solved

[AK49BWL]

I'm guessing I did that right lol.