Can I place *.SO files in a *.jar file?
Hello.
I'm a bit new at this, and this is my question:
I have a library called lib which contains 2 *.so files and another sub directory that contains a lot of *.java files
I don't really know how or why but there is some dependence of the *.so files and the *.java files , so in order to use functions from the *.so i need to use this line:
javac -classpath ../lib Dot.java
I want to transform this library into a jar file so I could easily move it to other people , and to include it when i use Eclipse
However , no matter how I try to jar the directory into lib.jar file, and use the command:
javac -classpath ../lib.jar Dot.java
I keep getting errors that it could not find the needed classes...
What to do?
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Yossale
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Yossalea] at [2007-10-3 2:23:49]
> I don't really know how or why but there is some
> dependence of the *.so files and the *.java files ,
It's called JNI.
> so in order to use functions from the *.so i need to
> use this line:
> javac -classpath ../lib Dot.java
Uh... the *.so files have to be somewhere where the system finds them. Anyway, they don't matter during compilation, so you don't have to do what you're doing because of the native libs.
> I want to transform this library into a jar file so I
> could easily move it to other people , and to include
> it when i use Eclipse
Do it.
> However , no matter how I try to jar the directory
> into lib.jar file, and use the command:
> javac -classpath ../lib.jar Dot.java
javac is the compiler. Do you mean "java"?
> I keep getting errors that it could not find the
> needed classes...
Set the classpath to your JAR. This has nothing to do with native libs.
And to answer the question you didn't ask in your post: no, you can't load *.so files from JARs. What you could do is to let your program unpack the libs and write them into the file system, to a place in the PATH where they would be found.
