Re: [OpenBabel-scripting] Open Babel for Java

[Noel O'B. <bao...@gm...>]

I didn't get any answer on the SWIG mailing list regarding this...but
I didn't really know how to phrase the question.

Googling doesn't help much but I did find the following links which
might yield some information:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=786600
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=521235&messageID=2492274
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jni/download/jni.pdf

Noel

On 18/12/06, Geoffrey Hutchison <ge...@ge...> wrote:
>
> On Dec 17, 2006, at 7:33 PM, richard apodaca wrote:
>
> > But now I get a new series of errors when this code is
> > run:
> ...
> >   /usr/local/lib/openbabel/cifformat.so did not load
> > properly
>
> This sounds like the problems we had with the Python and Perl
> wrappers, e.g.:
> if sys.platform.find(\"linux\") != -1:
>      import dl
>      sys.setdlopenflags(sys.getdlopenflags() | dl.RTLD_GLOBAL)
>
> I'm not sure what the appropriate fix would be for Java. Basically,
> Open Babel loads its file format shared libraries separately from the
> library. Probably the best solution would be to write to the SWIG
> list and find out if there's a global solution. (Strange that it's
> not an issue with Ruby, evidently.)
>
> As I've learned, adding new languages with SWIG is always an
> adventure. :-)
>
> Thanks guys!
> -Geoff
>