Re: [sdljava-users] Problems with JavaSDL.. I've been trying for hours to get this to work.

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Hi Chris,

Chris Dennett wrote:
> By the way, I have doubts about the portability of this code. How many 
> users are going to mess around with all this if they want to play an SDL 
> Java game on their system? It seems that Java is a bit wrapped in 
> obfuscation when it comes to using C libraries.

I had to get around this too and my solution was to move the necessary 
absolute path into the java realm. So for SDL.dll I use System.load() to 
get the VM to load the native lib.

You should be able to make a reasonable assumption about where your app 
is installed at runtime or you can infer it from classpath/user.dir/etc. 
  This mean you should be able to generate that absolute path just 
before loading the native SDL lib in the java code.

I haven't yet explored whether this would also be a preferable way of 
loading sdljava.dll though, but do let us know how you get on :)

Cheers,

Steph

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