Why do I get error "[unixODBC][Easysoft][Oracle]Could not open libclntsh.a No such file or directory [ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect" on AIX?

Easysoft ODBC-Oracle Driver

Why do I get error "[unixODBC][Easysoft][Oracle]Could not open libclntsh.a No such file or directory [ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect" on AIX?

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Last Reviewed :	14th February 2006
Revision :	1

The libclntsh.a is an "archived" file which cannot be opened by our driver. The way around this is to "unarchive" this file and extract the shared object. This can be done by changing directory to $ORACLE_HOME/lib ($ORACLE_HOME/lib32 if you are not using the 64-bit library) and typing ar -xv libclntsh.a.

This will then generate a file called shr.o which will then need to be renamed to libclntsh.so. From this, the driver will be able to load the required shared object.

Please then make sure that $ORACLE_HOME/lib (/lib32) is added to your LIBPATH.

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- Easysoft ODBC-Oracle Driver

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Easysoft ODBC-Oracle Driver

Why do I get error "[unixODBC][Easysoft][Oracle]Could not open libclntsh.a No such file or directory [ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect" on AIX?

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