Problem initializing libsapsecu.so on Solaris 10 with SAP NW2004s.

Question

We have developed a Java application that we intend to serve with SAP NetWeaver 7.0 (NW2004s). Our NetWeaver system is running on Solaris 10 with an Oracle DB. We want our application to be able to extract usernames from SAP Login Tickets and to do these we need the external libraries <b>libsapsecu.so</b> and <b>libsapssoext.so</b>. However, when our application tries to initialize these libraries an exception is thrown:
Mysapinitialize failed. rc=14
However, we are using Windows versions of these libraries on another server and they work.
Does anybody have experience using these libraries on Solaris, and if so, has anybody had similar problems.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Standard C++ defines two versions of qsort (and also bsearch): one that takes a pointer to a C function, and one that takes a pointer to a C++ function.
Recall that in standard C++, a pointer to a C function has a different type than a pointer to a C++ function. This issue is discussed at length in the C++ Migration Guide that comes with the compiler.
The version of qsort that takes a pointer to a C function is the C version of qsort, and is in libc.so (the basic Solaris runtime library that all programs use).
The version of qsort that takes a pointer to a C++ function is in the C++ runtime library libCrun.so that all C++ programs use.
But because it took a while for Solaris headers to be updated to the C++ requirement, early versions of libCrun did not have the C++ version of qsort (or bsearch). If you get the latest C++ runtime library patch (SUNWlibC) for your system, your program should link. You can get patches here:
http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/cc/downloads/patches/index.html
Not only the system where you build the program needs updating, but every system that runs the program you build.
Alternatively, you can declare the comparison function extern "C" so that the C version of qsort will be used.
extern "C"
int comp(const void pv1, const void pv2)
But if the comparison function is in a namespace or is a class member function, you cannot usefully declare it extern "C".