JNI LoadLibrary - unresolved references.

[Simon Heffer]

I have a bunch of shared libraries on Linux. The one I need to use via the JNI has a couple of external refs which I know I'll never use but I'm getting Unsatisfied Link error when load the library. Previous posts have stated JNI is a bit strict on this. I tracked the symbols down eventually and I loaded the extra library but this has unresolved refs too and I can see a whole chain of these libraries having to be loaded which is a pain in the %^&%*.

So is there a way to persuade JNI not to be so pernickity about it?

[Rob Spoor]

And if JNI ignored the missing reference, and tried to call a function from that reference, what then? You'd get a lot more, and nastier, runtime error messages. Your entire JVM might even crash!