How to influence search path of System.loadLibrary() through Java code?

Question

In a Java project, I am using a third-party library that loads some native library via

System.loadLibrary(\"libName\");

I\'d like to be able to

Answer 1

While technically correct these answers are missleading. Setting the environment variables PATH on Windows, or LD_LIBRARY_PATH on unix will change where the jvm looks for libraries: What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH and how to use it?

on linux: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/.../ then: java ....