Java: load shared libraries with dependencies

Question

I am wrapping a shared library (written in C) with Java using JNA. The shared library is written internally, but that library uses functions from another external library, which

Answer 1

There is yet another solution for that. You can dlopen directly inside JNI code, like this:

void loadLibrary() {
  if(handle == NULL) {
    handle = dlopen("libname.so", RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_GLOBAL);
    if (!handle) {
      fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", dlerror());
      exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }
  }
}

...
...

loadLibrary();

This way, you will open library with RTLD_GLOBAL.

You can find detailed description here: http://www.owsiak.org/?p=3640