Forms 11gR2 installed on linux (centos 6.3) cannot start

Question

hello ervery one,
I installed weblogic 10.3.5 and jdk first ,and then installed forms11gR2 on my linux virtual machine.
I can not start up my forms builder .
it report an error: cannot find libjvm.so :cannot open shared object file ,no such file or directory.
the weblogic server can start normally.
what may be the reason and how can i fix it ?
lmw.

Answer 1

CentOS is not a supported operating system for 11g Forms/Reports - thus if you run into a brickwall on this, don't be surprised :)
Despite it not being supported, I have ran Forms Builder in an unsupported linux environment before. You likely just need to setup missing environment variables to get it to run, make sure the environment variables listed below are set. I'd probably do this in a little shell script to launch forms builder. However just a fair warning, the user interface isnt pretty when you run it on UNIX-based systems.
#MW_HOME: WebLogic Middleware home directory
export MW_HOME=/opt/oracle/middleware
#ORACLE_INSTANCE: Oracle Instance of your Forms/Reports Domain
export ORACLE_INSTANCE=$MW_HOME/asinst_1
#ORACLE_HOME: Oracle Home of Forms and Reports
export ORACLE_HOME=$MW_HOME/as_1
export FORMS=$ORACLE_HOME/forms
export FORMS_BUILDER_CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/jlib/frmbld.jar:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib/importer.jar:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib/debugger.jar:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib/utj.jar:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib/ewt3.jar:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib/share.jar:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib/dfc.jar:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib/ohj.jar:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib/help-share.jar:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib/oracle_ice.jar:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib/jewt4.jar:$ORACLE_HOME/forms/java/frmwebutil.jar:$ORACLE_HOME/forms/java/frmall.jar
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$ORACLE_HOME/jdk/jre/lib/amd64:$ORACLE_HOME/jdk/jre/lib/amd64/server:$ORACLE_HOME/jdk/jre/lib/amd64/native_threads
export LD_PRELOAD=$ORACLE_HOME/jdk/jre/lib/amd64/libjsig.so
#PATH: Make sure to include OS User bin paths
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/jdk/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/oracle/bin
#TNS_ADMIN: Default TNS_ADMIN for 11g Forms and Reports
export TNS_ADMIN=$ORACLE_INSTANCE/config
Thanks,
Gavin