Including Native Library in Netbeans

Question

I am trying to read portable devices from java signed applet.... I found a jmtp library on http://code.google.com/p/jmtp/w/list to get access to portable devices but when i run it in netbeans it gives error

    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no jmtp in java.library.path
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1860)
        at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:845)
        at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1084)
        at jmtp.PortableDeviceManagerImplWin32.(PortableDeviceManagerImplWin32.java:38)
        at jmtp.PortableDeviceManager.(PortableDeviceManager.java:34)
        at jmtp.Jmtp.main(Jmtp.java:23)
    Java Result: 1
    

I searched and found that i have to include .dll file as native library in project of jmtp... I right-clicked on project and navigated to properties and then Selected "Run" and Selected VM Option as

-Djava.library.path="c:\jmtp\native\windows"

and placed that jmtp.dll file in c:\jmtp folder

But same error appears constantly my code is

    package jmtp;

import jmtp.PortableDevice;
import jmtp.PortableDeviceManager;
import jmtp.PortableDeviceObject;
import jmtp.PortableDeviceStorageObject;

public class Jmtp {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        PortableDeviceManager manager = new PortableDeviceManager();
        PortableDevice device = manager.getDevices()[0]; 

        // Connect to my mp3-player
        device.open();
        System.out.println(device.getModel());
        System.out.println("---------------");

        // Iterate over deviceObjects
        for(PortableDeviceObject object : device.getRootObjects()) {

            // If the object is a storage object
            if(object instanceof PortableDeviceStorageObject) {
                PortableDeviceStorageObject storage = (PortableDeviceStorageObject)object;

                for(PortableDeviceObject o2 :  storage.getChildObjects()){
                    System.out.println(o2.getName());
                 }              
            }
        }
        manager.getDevices()[0].close();

    }
}

please, tell me what is the issue

Solution 1

Finally i found the solution, In order to include native library we need to add following steps in netbeans

     ==>Right click on the Project
     ==>Properties
     ==>Click on RUN
     ==>VM Options : -Djava.library.path="C:\Your Directory where Dll is present"
     ==>Ok
    

Solution 2

You can also load the library from within the program using this line:

System.loadLibrary("jmtp")

Place the folder containing the file jmtp.dll directly under the Java project.

Alternatively, I tried this and it works:

System.setProperty( "java.library.path", "libs" );

Whereas "libs" is the folder that contained the dll and is placed directly under the java project folder.

I noticed that the jmtp.dll gives the following exception with a 64-bit JDK:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: libs/jmtp (.\libs/jmtp.dll is not a valid Win32 application. )
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibraryWithPath(ClassLoader.java:1018)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibraryWithClassLoader(ClassLoader.java:982)
    at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:506)
    at podcasts.Transferer.main(Transferer.java:28)

You will need to run the program on a 32-bit JDK for this to work.

Solution 3

After struggling with this for a while, I've found a working solution to the problem.

I used System.out.println(System.getProperty("java.library.path")); within my code to find out what the actual value for java.library.path was on my system. It's at least a concatenation of the %PATH% variable for the system and user environment variables. So all I needed to the was add the location of my libraries to either of those and the problem went away.

Comments

[Rudi Kershaw]

This has worked for me to run the project in Netbeans, but once the jar is built the same error is back. So it's not helping in the long run.

[Amberlea Moore]

Works for me, don't include the dll in the path, only the directory where it resides.

[Aniruddh Ambarkar]

How can we have this dll/settings in once outpur jar is build?