Does jni work?

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Thu Jan 25 09:08:00 GMT 2001


>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Kahlert <martin.kahlert@infineon.com> writes:

Martin> libsample.so: sampNat.c sample.h
Martin> 	gcc -shared -fPIC -o $@ $<

Here you build a library named `libsample.so'...

Martin>   static {
Martin>     System.loadLibrary("sampNat");
Martin>   }
Martin> }

... but here you try to load it with a different name

Martin> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: sampNat: file not found

... which is what the exception tells you.

Martin> Did i make any mistake, or is this known not to work?

JNI ought to work.  The invocation API won't work.  And there might be
bugs; some testing has been done but it hasn't really been used for
real (as far as I know).

Tom


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