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Maven: Bundling and Unpacking Native Libraries

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Introduction

Steps to bundle the native libraries to be pushed to Nexus, and to unpack the native libraries on mvn package.

Bundling Native Libraries into a JAR File

Let’s assume we have the following native libraries for multiple platforms:-

tree native

native
├── linux
│   ├── x86
│   │   └── libnative_synchronization.so
│   └── x86_64
│       └── libnative_synchronization.so
├── macosx
│   └── libnative_synchronization.jnilib
└── win32
    ├── x86
    │   └── native_synchronization.dll
    └── x86_64
        └── native_synchronization.dll

Create a jar that contains these native libraries. The -C options prevents the native folder from being created in the JAR file.

jar cMf my-project-native.jar -C native .

Pushing JAR to Nexus

When pushing this native JAR file to Nexus, make sure to use the natives-* classifier. In this example, I called it natives-all.

<dependency>
	<groupid>my.project</groupid>
	<artifactid>native</artifactid>
	<version>1.0</version>
	<classifier>natives-all</classifier>
</dependency>

Configuring pom.xml

First, add LWJGL and the native JAR dependencies.

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupid>org.lwjgl.lwjgl</groupid>
        <artifactid>lwjgl</artifactid>
        <version>2.9.3</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
		<groupid>my.project</groupid>
		<artifactid>native</artifactid>
		<version>1.0</version>
		<classifier>natives-all</classifier>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Then, add the following plugin:-

<build>
    <plugins>
		<plugin>
		    <groupid>com.googlecode.mavennatives</groupid>
		    <artifactid>maven-nativedependencies-plugin</artifactid>
		    <version>0.0.7</version>
		    <executions>
		        <execution>
		            <id>unpacknatives</id>
		            <phase>generate-resources</phase>
		            <goals>
		                <goal>copy</goal>
		            </goals>
		        </execution>
		    </executions>
		</plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

This plugin searches for dependencies with natives-* classifier and unpacks the content to target/natives folder.

Testing

Run mvn clean package.

Inspect target/natives. The native libraries should be unpacked here:-

target/natives
├── META-INF
│   └── MANIFEST.MF
├── OpenAL32.dll
├── OpenAL64.dll
├── jinput-dx8.dll
├── jinput-dx8_64.dll
├── jinput-raw.dll
├── jinput-raw_64.dll
├── jinput-wintab.dll
├── libjinput-linux.so
├── libjinput-linux64.so
├── libjinput-osx.jnilib
├── liblwjgl.dylib
├── liblwjgl.so
├── liblwjgl64.so
├── libopenal.so
├── libopenal64.so
├── linux
│   ├── x86
│   │   └── libnative_synchronization.so
│   └── x86_64
│       └── libnative_synchronization.so
├── lwjgl.dll
├── lwjgl64.dll
├── macosx
│   └── libnative_synchronization.jnilib
├── openal.dylib
└── win32
    ├── x86
    │   └── native_synchronization.dll
    └── x86_64
        └── native_synchronization.dll

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