I've written a few shared libraries for use under both Linux and Solaris,
and since a few people are curious about this, here goes:
1) Make sure you have run javah. Plenty of documentation on this exists.
2) You must first compile your C source files to object files, which end
in ".o". Example: gcc -fPIC -c -I<java-header-path> file1.c -o
file1.o
You must replace <java-header-path> with the path to the include files
for java-linux.
3) Create your library. This is not the same as creating an executable.
Under Linux, use: ld -shared file1.o -o libMyLib.so
If you have more than file1.o, just list them after file1.o.
You can then, from Java, load your library as System.loadLibrary("MyLib");
Hope this helps.
Ed Roskos
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