How to influence search path of System.loadLibrary() through Java code?

Question

In a Java project, I am using a third-party library that loads some native library via

System.loadLibrary(\"libName\");

I\'d like to be able to

Answer 1

I needed to change the dll path for my unit tests. I tried the following hack and it worked:

System.setProperty( "java.library.path", "/path/to/libs" ); 
Field fieldSysPath = ClassLoader.class.getDeclaredField( "sys_paths" );
fieldSysPath.setAccessible( true );
fieldSysPath.set( null, null );

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