maybe more importantly, it took me a while to figure out what the heck the error message for this meant until I opened eqemu_server.pl itself. error given is "You must run eqemu_server.pl in an empty directory"; I was baffled because it's obviously not going to work if I empty the directory of files other than the .pl mentioned.
Bless you for this script! outside that little hiccup (perhaps I'm duller than most), everything went great!
Edit to add link to page: https://docs.eqemu.io/server/installation/server-installation-windows/