Loading JNI lib on OSX?
- by Clinton
Background
So I am attempting to load a jnilib (specifically JOGL) into java on OSX at runtime. I have been following along the relevant stackoverflow questions:
Maven and the JOGL Library
Loading DLL in Java - Eclipse - JNI
How to make a jar file that include all jar files
The end goal for me is to package platform specific JOGL files into a jar and unzip them into a temp directory and load them at start-up. I worked my problem back to simply attempting to load JOGL using hard-coded paths:
File f = new File("/var/folders/+n/+nfb8NHsHiSpEh6AHMCyvE+++TI/-Tmp-/libjogl.jnilib");
System.load(f.toString());
f = new File ("/var/folders/+n/+nfb8NHsHiSpEh6AHMCyvE+++TI/-Tmp-/libjogl_awt.jnilib");
System.load(f.toString());
I get the following exception when attempting to use the JOGL API:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no jogl in java.library.path
But when I specify java.library.path by adding the following JVM option:
-Djava.library.path="/var/folders/+n/+nfb8NHsHiSpEh6AHMCyvE+++TI/-Tmp-/"
Everything works fine.
Question
Is it possible use System.load (or some other variant) on OSX as a replacement for -Djava.library.path that is invoked at runtime?
