'eressea.path' not found

[Puttt]

Moin Enno!

I'd rather send you an mail than open an issue, but i can't figure out your mailadress.

The command './eressea -t 1 run-turn.lua' (after a smooth setup) generates this error:
ERROR: Lua call failed.
run-turn.lua:1: module 'eressea.path' not found:
no field package.preload['eressea.path']
Did I miss anything during the installation?

[ennorehling]

Opening an issue is a fine way to get in touch about problems, and it might help others who are struggling with similar problems. Let's try that for now. If you absolutely need more direct support, find me on our Discord at https://discord.gg/KT5Fffh

That message appears when the server's scripts are not in the LUA_PATH environment variable. Assuming you have installed Eressea in $HOME/eressea, try running this first:

eval "$(luarocks path)"
export LUA_PATH="${HOME}/eressea/server/scripts/?.lua;$LUA_PATH"

The cron script in ../server/bin/run-eressea.cron does the same thing.

[ennorehling]

Note to myself: This should be part of the setup instructions somehow, I might make the script print some instructions about to add this to .bash_aliases

[Puttt]

This works, thank you. Since I'm struggling with the cron script for now, I wrote a little shell script that helps me out. As soon as I have a little more time, I will try to improve the documentation a bit.