PA32 application not running on Itanium

[Franky Leeuwerck_2]

Hi there,

I have a PA32 application (scooba.exe) that I want to run on an HP-UX Itanium.

I taught that the 'Aries' emulation would automatically take care of this PA32 application and let it run, but as you see below this is not the case.

Is there a special setting necessary to activate ' Aries ' emulation ?

Thanks in advance for your answers.
Franky



$ scooba scope
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Bad magic number for shared library: /home/ingres/lib/libcompat.1.sl
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Exec format error
ARIES32: Core file for PA32 application saved to /home/ingres/sctools/bin/core.scooba.exe
scooba[3]: 1753 Abort(coredump)

[A. Clay Stephenson]

ARIES is invoked automatically for you. The first thing that I would do is check for the latest cumulative ARIES patch for your OS release. If that fails to fix your problem, you should open a support call. HP is very interested in knowing about applications that fail to run under ARIES emulation.

[Mike Stroyan · Accepted solution]

Aries was automatically running for your exe.
It had a problem with the shared library /home/ingres/lib/libcompat.1.sl. Perhaps that shared library is not installed as a PA32 version.

You need to have PA-RISC versions of all of the shared libraries that will be used by a PA-RISC executable. Aries cannot mix together PA-RISC code with IPF code in the same process.

The various versions of system shared libraries are kept in different directories, such as /usr/lib/, /usr/lib/pa20_64, /usr/lib/hpux32, and /usr/lib/hpux64. You may have a problem if you want to use both PA and IPF versions of libraries which all expect to be in /home/ingres/lib.

[Franky Leeuwerck_2]

Thanks for your quick replies.

The executable is using shared executables from an Ingres DBMS installation installed on the Itanium machine. So, the PA32 executable is not using the shared executables from its original PA32 platform.

Best regards,
Franky