[vtkusers] A step forward and stuck again: VTK, Mac OS, Java, UnsatisfiedLinkError, bad library format/name?

[Kustaa Nyholm]

Hi thanks to help from the list I've now compiled VTK on Mac OS

I've got the vtk.jar file and thus have been compile the test.java
sample application.

When I try to run it I get exception:

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError:
/Users/nyholku/VTK/bin/libvtkCommonJava.5.0.2.dylib:

when the Java code tries to execute:

System.loadLibrary("vtkCommonJava");

Now, I suspect that this is not the common problem of the class loader
not finding the
native library, as I've traced with the debugger to see what happens
and as far
as I can make out, the "vtkCommonJava" gets mangled (correctly, I
presume)
to "libvtkCommonJava.jnilib" which is a link to
"/Users/nyholku/VTK/bin/libvtkCommonJava.5.0.2.dylib"
and which exists (verified with copy pasting the path to ls command, so
there is no typo there).

So it appears, that the class loader actually gets the correct file
name/path (as evidenced by the
exception message with the correct path name), but for some reason is
not able to load 
the library. Wrong format of the library, or maybe the name (recall
having read something like that somewhere)
of the library is separate from the file name?

Any pointers? What information should I send to help list to help me?

br Kusti


Kustaa Nyholm
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