Re: [Java-gnome-developer] win32 java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: gtk_init

[Ka-Hing C. <ka...@gm...>]

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 06:54:11 +0000, Simon Godden <si...@sg...> wrote:
> I don't think so.  If you run the java command from a MS-DOS prompt,
> then it tells you about any missing DLL dependency that it cannot load,
> and there are no such messages.
> 
> As it is Java that is throwing the unsatisfied link error, I believe it
> must be the definition of a native method that it cannot find, i.e.
> something within the gtkjni-2.4.dll itself, as suggested by a previous
> post.

Perhaps java cannot load gtkjni-2.4.dll because gtkjni-2.4.dll
references gtk_init, which is contained in one of the GTK dlls, and
since java cannot find the GTK
dlls, you get the unsatisfied link error.

> If it had successfully found the native method and the problem was
> something the native method itself was calling, I don't think I would
> get a UnsatisfiedLinkError, because it would be out of the JVM's hands
> by then.

I haven't done much JNI, but as I recall java throws
UnsatisfiedLinkError when what I described above happens. It may also
throw the same exception under other conditions though. Getting native
libraries to load is not what I would call fun...

-khc