Whenever I try to connect within the IDE I get the following DLL initialization errors:

Initialization of... oranl8.dll ... process is terminating abnormally.

A dynamic library ... routine failed.


I have to click through the dialogs 5-6 times and then I get a blank Delphi dialog with an OK button. When I click on this the Oracle Logon dialog returns and I have to cancel or the process continually repeats. Any ideas?

My configuration:
DOA 3.4.5
Delphi 5 Ent SP1
WinNT 4.0 SP6a
Oracle 8.1.7 client

Please help,
Scott Rice

[This message has been edited by srice (edited 01 September 2001).]

It seems to me that the Net8 installation of your Primary Oracle Home is not correctly configured or installed.

You can change your Primary Oracle Home through the Oracle Home Selector (a standard Oracle Utility).

If this does not help, can you verify if other Net8 tools (e.g. SQL*Plus) work correctly?

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Marco Kalter
Allround Automations

all other tools work correctly as well as the compiled application. It is only in the IDE that this problem occurs. I have tried reinstalling the DOA components with no success.

I have verified that all Net8 tools work as well as the compiled application. I am having this problem within the IDE getting any of the DOA funtionality to connect to any Oracle instance. Please help,
Scott Rice

[quote]Originally posted by mkalter:
It seems to me that the Net8 installation of your Primary Oracle Home is not correctly configured or installed.

You can change your Primary Oracle Home through the Oracle Home Selector (a standard Oracle Utility).

If this does not help, can you verify if other Net8 tools (e.g. SQL*Plus) work correctly?

[/quote]

Have you set any of the design-time preferences in the IDE (Oracle Menu, Preference item)? If you have set the OralceHome or OCIDLL values, clear them, restart Delphi, and try again.

If this does not apply, verify if you have set the OracleHome or OCIDLL variables at run-time in your application. If you have, set the design-time preferences accordingly.

I hope this helps.

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Marco Kalter
Allround Automations

I have tried both setting and clearing the design-time preferences and neither scenario is effective. I do not set any runtime preferences and have run the compiled applications with different ORACLE_HOMEs as well as on different platforms without seeing this connection problem. Thanks. Any further thoughts?

Scott Rice



[This message has been edited by srice (edited 13 September 2001).]

Maybe it's a silly question, but is the different run-time and design-time behavior on the same PC?

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Marco Kalter
Allround Automations

Yes. That is what is so confusing.