Re: Eclipse, WO, and JNI
Re: Eclipse, WO, and JNI
- Subject: Re: Eclipse, WO, and JNI
- From: Tim Worman <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 11:39:43 -0700
Thanks Timo, I appreciate it. Good resources.
Tim Worman
UCLA GSE&IS
On Oct 8, 2010, at 2:41 PM, Timo Hoepfner wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> some random notes:
>
> You can specify a native library location for jars in eclipse in the build path settings.
> For deployment either put them in /Library/Java/Extensions or explicitly specify the location (I don't have example code for that at hand).
> You can generate the headers with ant's javah task, but I remember running in some problem with that at some point, but I don't remember what it was... I ended up generating via CLI.
> You should really take a look at using JNA (https://jna.dev.java.net/), this can replace much of the boilerplate code and the generated headers!
> When you're interfacing with ObjC libraries, take a look at Rococoa (http://code.google.com/p/rococoa/).
> There's also some tool that auto-generates JNA/Rococoa code from C headers called JNAerator (http://code.google.com/p/jnaerator/). It had some problems when I looked at it, but this is quite a while ago.
>
> HTH,
>
> Timo
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> Am 08.10.2010 um 22:15 schrieb Tim Worman:
>
>> I'm looking to do some work on a WO project with JNI calls that was built in XCode and move it to Eclipse. I guess workflow advice is the most important thing - for mixing WO with JNI to call native c libraries. Since this whole subject is new to me in general I'm interested in advice on:
>>
>> - Eclipse project structure
>> - where you put your c libraries so that your project can discover them
>> - workflow for generating c headers, is it inside eclipse too
>> - can it all just be built and run as a WO app
>>
>> Anyone? Bueller?
>>
>> Tim Worman
>> UCLA GSE&IS
>>
>>
>>
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