Is it possible to link a static library to Java through JNI?

Question

Is it possible to build a HelloWorld.lib and load it to a Java application using JNI? Or it just works with shared libraries?

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Answer 1

To load a library at runtime it must be a dll (windows). If you have a static library (lib) and you have to use it via JNI you have to create a wrapper dll