Attached Libraries - Basics of attaching

I have a form and I am attaching 3 libraries to that form. I have to remove the path since my production enviornment is Linux, and development is Windows.
Anyway everything works fine in Windows when running the form but when I close Forms builder and re-open it then it fails to attach the libraries. I have tried to put the libraries in the same place as form and that does not fix the problem either. Anyone know how to fix this issue.
On a side note, when I move the forms over to the Linux box and try to compile the form it fails because it can not find variables declared in a library, and I compiled the library on the linux box first.

When you move to a unix environment, the upper/lower-case characters in the file name of each library make a difference. Decide on a standard for your unix environment, either all lower-case, or upper-case main name with lower-case .pll and .plx. I think the compiler produces lower-case extension (.plx), so at least go with that part lower-case.
Now, back on your Windows environment, convert your .fmb to text (File, Administration, Convert... ) and use an editor (Notepad, NOT MS Word) and find all references to your PLL libraries. Make sure they are using the same lower (or upper-case) characters as your unix standard. If not, change them, and save the fmt file, then convert it back to binary. Move it over to the unix environment and compile.
We had to do that with EVERY form when we moved to web.

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That should be correct. If you attached the libraries without a path, modified your FORMS_PATH to include the path that the libraries are sitting in, then the form should pick them up.
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using Jdapi to manipulate forms is an exciting experience, especially, when misterious things happen
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