[erlang-questions] trouble getting application to load

[Nicolas Charpentier]

Jed McCaleb wrote:
> So I installed erlang from EPEL on a centos machine. I can't seem to get 
> odbc to work on it though. I get:
> 12> application:start(odbc).
> {error,{"no such file or directory","odbc.app"}}
> 
> but
> # locate odbc.app
> /usr/lib/erlang/lib/odbc-2.10.2/ebin/odbc.app
> 
>...
> I don't understand how application:load works. How does it know where to 
> look for these .app files?
> Thanks for any help,
> Jed.
> 



Hi,

application:load/1 uses the code path to find the app file.
in your erlang shell type:

1> code:add_path("/usr/lib/erlang/lib/odbc-2.10.2/ebin/").
true
2> application:load(odbc).
ok
3>

I never compiled odbc on my computer but I think that you have something 
strange with your erlang installation. Usually all code paths are set by 
  the start.boot file.
How did you install the odbc application ?


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