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This page describes errors you get at runtime of OGS, e.g. when executing the ogs-executable or some utilities.

Error message: error while loading shared libraries / XX.dll could not be found or libXX.so could not be found.

Linux / macOS

Typical error message:

error while loading shared libraries: libXX.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

A shared library which was linked to OGS could not be found during runtime. The runtime search paths are determined by the system configuration but you add paths with the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH (macOS: DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH). If you know where the missing library is located you can adapt the environment variable:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/missing/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
./ogs

More information can be found here:

• https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html
• https://amir.rachum.com/blog/2016/09/17/shared-libraries/#runtime-search-path

One can see with the ldd (macOS: otool -L) tool which dynamic libraries will be loaded at runtime.

Windows

Typical error message:

XX.dll could not be found.

Similar to Linux but on Windows you need to adapt the PATH environment variable.

One can use the Dependencies -tool to see which DLLs will be loaded at runtime.