[vtkusers] message from a friend of mine

[Jim Peterson]

Mike,
My first attempt to use vtk with Java on a windows system was by using 
the MinGW compiler, probably in mid July this year, to build the shared 
libraries and java wrappers. The builds appeared to work, but apparently 
the cmake files using MinGW assume a unix like shell will be used, and 
add the "lib" prefix to all output .dll libraries, resulting in a 
mismatch when attempting to run the Java examples where the Java statement:
 System.loadLibrary("vtkCommonJava");
generates platform specific names. Unix style platforms prepend "lib" 
and would use a name of libvtkCommonJava for the above statement, and 
Windows platform JVM's append ".dll" and use "vtkCommonJava.dll". 
neither of which match the cmake generated MinGW library name 
"libvtkCommonJava.dll".   I resolved that issue by generating a Visual 
Studio Express project with cmake, and building from the visual studio 
project.

Jim

Michael Jackson wrote:
> Wasn't there just a thread about this issue? The java jni libraries 
> are not getting the correct name or something on windows. It was just 
> this month or last.
> ___________________________________________________________
> Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
>
> On Sep 2, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Jonathan Morra wrote:
>
>>        The program threw the following exception on the first
>>        System.loadLibrary call
>>
>>        java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError:
>>        
>> C:\Users\jmorra\Documents\vtk-binaries\bin\Release\vtkCommonJava.dll:
>>        Can't find dependent libraries
>
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