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| From | Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> |
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| Subject | Re: java.library path lib.*.so v *.dll |
| Date | Sat, 4 Jul 2020 14:16:39 -0400 |
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On 7/4/2020 1:20 PM, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
> It seems mind boggling that a "machine independent: java would use DLL.
Java is machine-independent (in some sense of the phrase). That
implies there are machine-specific things Java cannot do. When an
application wants to do something machine-specific that is beyond Java's
power, it can write the machine-specific bits in another language (often
C++ or C), put those bits in a library, and tell the Java code how to
find and call them. The whole Java-works-with-a-foreigner framework is
called the "Java Native Interface," or JNI.
It seems the application you are struggling with is written in a
mixture of Java and something else, and that the "something else"
pieces reside in a library.
> What is .so?
A "shared object," Unix' moral equivalent of a Windows DLL.
> Was it exclusive to RDKIT or is it a Java thing?
Sorry; I have no idea. Is the available documentation helpful?
Look for a "how to install" or "system prerequisites" section, or
something of that kind.
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java.library path lib.*.so v *.dll vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com - 2020-07-04 17:20 +0000
Re: java.library path lib.*.so v *.dll Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2020-07-04 14:16 -0400
Re: java.library path lib.*.so v *.dll vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com - 2020-07-06 05:06 +0000
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