[Mod] Internet Relay Chat [irc]

[fireglow]

Thanks for your answer.
Yes, I thought it would be rejected, after all, minetests #1 feature is stagnation.

[Don]

after all, minetests #1 feature is stagnation.

I think that is not fair to the devs. They put in a lot of time for free. They made the game what it is. I think they deserve a lot more respect.
If this is something that you really want then you can do the code or hire someone to do it.

[Amaz]

Thanks for your answer.
Yes, I thought it would be rejected, after all, minetests #1 feature is stagnation.

It was never said that it was rejected, just that it wasn't worth coding, as it would require too much change for too little benefit...

And actually, it turns out that it wasn't too much change: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/3537
So, maybe there's no need for so much pessimism?

[DarGod]

Don't work with Unicode(

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<minetest> <Dormi> Character conversion failed!

[fireglow]

Hello, we're running the latest git head of this mod and getting
<UserName> <invalid wstring>
in IRC whenever a in-game message includes ö,ü,ä, or ß.
Is there a fix for this issue?

[im-poke]

How to change the channel it reveives?

[kaeza]

How to change the channel it reveives?

Have you tried reading the README?

[fireglow]

Hello, we're running the latest git head of this mod and getting
<UserName> <invalid wstring>
in IRC whenever a in-game message includes ö,ü,ä, or ß.
Is there a fix for this issue?

kaeza,
is there anything I can do to help you identify the problem?
Most of my users are speaking German, so we get a lot of those "<invalid wstring>" messages to IRC and other servers.

[kaeza]

kaeza,
is there anything I can do to help you identify the problem?
Most of my users are speaking German, so we get a lot of those "<invalid wstring>" messages to IRC and other servers.

I haven't been able to reproduce the bug in the server I tried. Getting in touch with the owner for more info.

What I would like to know, is if the users having those problems are using a recent version of the client. Some (illegal) clients on Android and iOS are based on very old versions (or the users could just be using an old version) which may be encoding strings incorrectly, or something.

Note: I'm just guessing here as I have no idea where the problem may lurk. There are a few other places where something could be wrong.

[fireglow]

Ah, okay.
I can give the following information:
Server is 0.4.13-9f988e3, running on FreeBSD, cmake is

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 cmake -DBUILD_SERVER=1 -DBUILD_CLIENT=0 -DENABLE_LEVELDB=1 -DRUN_IN_PLACE=1 -DUSE_GETTEXT=1 -DUSE_SOUND=0 -DUSE_CURL=1 -DUSE_FREETYPE=1 -DUSE_LUAJIT=1 ..


The tested clients are:
0.4.13 on windows, official download
0.4.13 on linux (mint), launchpad.net/minetestdevs/stable/ubuntu PPA
0.4.13-9f988e3 on FreeBSD

All clients send "öäü", which is displayed correctly on any other client (when on the above server).
All umlaut strings, from any client, are relayed as <invalid wstring> to IRC.

Edit:
kaeza helped me identifying the issue:
LANG must be set in the shell session that launches minetestserver.
In my case, LANG wasn't set.
After setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8, everything works as expected.
Thanks kaeza! :-)

[kaeza]

It seems to be a bug in the engine possibly affecting other mods as well.

Thank you again for the help in sorting this out. I've updated the first post with that note.

[kaeza]

I've finally got around to testing this under Windows, and it seems to actually work, but needs some work on the part of the server owner.

First of all, you will need a Minetest build linked against a Lua DLL (not statically linked). If your Minetest build contains a `lua51.dll` file, this should work.

Next, you will need to compile and link LuaSocket against the same DLL used by the engine. I have provided prebuilt LuaSocket binaries here for convenience. To use, follow these steps:

• Install the mod and submodules as normal.
• Download the archive linked above, and unpack it directly in the root of the IRC mod directory. You should get a subdirectory named `socket-lib`.
• Add this code somewhere in `init.lua` after the regular path setup:
  
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  local SD = modpath.."/socket-lib"
ie.package.path = SD.."/?/init.lua;"..SD.."/?.lua;"..ie.package.path
ie.package.cpath = SD.."/?/init.dll;"..SD.."/?.dll;"..ie.package.cpath


  
  For those that have the tools, there's a patch at `socket-lib/apply-this.patch` that will make the required changes.

For those that want to compile LuaSocket manually, I have provided a simple makefile for MinGW without all the cruft. You will need to put the LuaSocket sources in `mods/irc/luasocket`, and have `bin/lua51.dll`.

I can't guarantee this will work (WFM, YMMV).
Feedback is welcome.

[DI3HARD139]

Getting this error:

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Loaded texture: C:/Users/Owner/Desktop/minetest-0.4.14/textures/hdx-256-master/menu_overlay.png
Loaded texture: C:/Users/Owner/Desktop/minetest-0.4.14/textures/hdx-256-master/menu_header.png
Loaded texture: C:/Users/Owner/Desktop/minetest-0.4.14/textures/base/pack/blank.png
Loaded texture: C:/Users/Owner/Desktop/minetest-0.4.14/textures/base/pack/server_flags_favorite.png
Loaded texture: C:/Users/Owner/Desktop/minetest-0.4.14/textures/base/pack/server_flags_creative.png
Loaded texture: C:/Users/Owner/Desktop/minetest-0.4.14/textures/base/pack/server_flags_damage.png
Loaded texture: C:/Users/Owner/Desktop/minetest-0.4.14/textures/base/pack/server_flags_pvp.png
2016-08-01 22:58:15: ERROR[Main]: mod "markers" has unsatisfied dependencies:  "areas"
2016-08-01 22:58:15: ERROR[Main]: mod "misc_overrides" has unsatisfied dependencies:  "biome_lib" "dryplants" "ferns" "technic_chests" "youngtrees"
2016-08-01 22:58:15: WARNING[Main]: NodeDefManager: Ignoring CONTENT_IGNORE redefinition
2016-08-01 22:58:15: ERROR[Main]: ModError: Failed to load and run script from C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\minetest-0.4.14\bin\..\mods\irc\init.lua:
2016-08-01 22:58:15: ERROR[Main]: error loading module 'socket.core' from file 'C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\minetest-0.4.14\bin\..\mods\irc/socket-lib/socket\core.dll':
2016-08-01 22:58:15: ERROR[Main]:       %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
2016-08-01 22:58:15: ERROR[Main]: stack traceback:
2016-08-01 22:58:15: ERROR[Main]:       [C]: at 0x006fa700
2016-08-01 22:58:15: ERROR[Main]:       [C]: in function 'require'
2016-08-01 22:58:15: ERROR[Main]:       ...op\minetest-0.4.14\bin\..\mods\irc/socket-lib/socket.lua:12: in main chunk
2016-08-01 22:58:15: ERROR[Main]:       [C]: in function 'require'
2016-08-01 22:58:15: ERROR[Main]:       ...ner\Desktop\minetest-0.4.14\bin\..\mods\irc/irc/init.lua:1: in main chunk
2016-08-01 22:58:15: ERROR[Main]:       [C]: in function 'require'
2016-08-01 22:58:15: ERROR[Main]:       ...s\Owner\Desktop\minetest-0.4.14\bin\..\mods\irc\init.lua:39: in main chunk
2016-08-01 22:58:15: ERROR[Main]: Check debug.txt for details.
Loaded texture: C:/Users/Owner/Desktop/minetest-0.4.14/textures/hdx-256-master/menu_overlay.png
Loaded texture: C:/Users/Owner/Desktop/minetest-0.4.14/textures/hdx-256-master/menu_header.png


[kaeza]

Getting this error:

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[...]
2016-08-01 22:58:15: ERROR[Main]: error loading module 'socket.core' from file 'C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\minetest-0.4.14\bin\..\mods\irc/socket-lib/socket\core.dll':
2016-08-01 22:58:15: ERROR[Main]:       %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
[...]


Not sure where that comes from.

Windows support is not really in my goals ATM, but try compiling using the Makefile provided above if you know how. If not, well, you're out of luck. Sorry.