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

As described at http://www.owsiak.org/?p=3640, an easy but crude solution on Linux is to use LD_PRELOAD.

If that's not acceptable, then I'd recommend the answer by Oo.oO: dlopen the library with RTLD_GLOBAL within JNI code.