applprod@erp-prodbak.my.home:/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/au/12.0.0/forms/US>frmcmp_batch module=$AU_TOP/forms/US/XXITMDTLS.fmb userid=apps/apps output_file=$ONT_TOP/forms/US/XXITMDTLS.fmx Module_Type=FORM compile_all=Special
frmcmp_batch: error while loading shared libraries: libig.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
applprod@erp-prodbak.my.home:/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/au/12.0.0/forms/US>
Recently I cloned our Production instance to check the feasibility of OEL 6.7 & as usual securely copied most of the bash profile for the Oracle and Application manager users from the production server.
I came across the “cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory” error while trying to compile an old form module & hadn’t have a clue for how to deal with this error, that happened to me first time in last 8 years with Oracle applications.
I crosschecked the folder permissions against production instance and everything was fine. All I could remember which could have gone wrong was narrowed down to the bash profile for the application user and after validating I realized that I was sourcing a wrong environment file!
Instead of sourcing the “/apps/apps_st/appl/APPSPRODBAK_hostname.env” file, I was sourcing “/apps/apps_st/appl/PRODBAK_hostname.env”. I realized it while trying to echo the $ORACLE_HOME variable as application manager user.
So, if you come across “error while loading shared libraries” error while trying to compile, before start dismantling your instance, try to see whether you have sourced the environment variables correctly.
regards,