GradleJNI

Test project to investigate building a java project with native JNI code.

Compiler settings are MinGW windows centric.

Requirements:

32 bit java JDK (Java 7)
somewhat recent version of mingw on the path

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Set JAVA_HOME to point at a 32 bit JDK (Java 7)
Add the mingw bin directory to your path (set PATH=%PATH%;C:\MinGW\bin)
gradlew build
%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java -jar build\libs\GradleJNI-1.0.jar

Note: a trick is used to store the DLL inside the jar. Before the native library is loaded it is extracted from the jar to a temporary location then loaded from there. With OSGi you'd get that for free.

Note2: This is not intended to be nice java/C++ code. Just enough to investigate the in's and out's of building this with gradle.

TODO: change to multi project build:

: java
   builds jar & C++ artifact with JNIFoo.h generated with javah
:native
   builds DLL/so for an architecture, has dependency on artifact with JNIFoo.h
   creates native artifact for the DLL/so
:release-jar
   grabs available DLL/so's and jar and bundles it to one release-jar that
   can be deployed and run on multiple architectures

On a local machine this should depend on each other in the right way and build just for the native architecture.

In CI one would

trigger the java build & block native builds
run native builds in parallel
after the above run release-jar gathering all bits

TODO investigate cross compiling with mingw32/mingw64 compiler on linux

rklaren/GradleJNI

GradleJNI