JNI - “Cannot open include file: 'jni_md.h'”

Question

This sample program is meant to call a native method written in C.

Java Code

class HelloWorld {

    private native voi         


        

Answer 1

You should include the following header file in your native code first

#include 

In my case in UNIX system,

• This header file jni.h is present at /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/include/

• Also, jni_md.h is present at /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/include/linux

You can get the path to above files if you know where the Java installation path redirects you in your system. Get it done by following set of commands.

whereis java
/usr/bin/java /usr/share/java /usr/share/man/man1/java.1.gz

ls -l /usr/bin/java
/usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java

ls -l /etc/alternatives/java
/etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java

where (->) is symbolic link.

• At last, you get your Java installation path. In my case, it is /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java

Also don't forget to include jni.h & jni_md.h files path while doing their native Compilation.

Compilation:-

gcc -I /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/include/ -I /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/include/linux/ -o libHelloWorld.so -shared *nativeSourceCodeFile*.c

where (-I) is Identify the Path.

• Above command compiles our native code & that's why path of Java Native Interface header file jni.h is provided in reference.
• jni.h does the explicit import of jni_md.h ie. #include "jni_md.h" & that's why we've provided next reference in our compilation to that jni_md.h file.
• jni_md.h contains the machine-dependent typedefs for jbyte, jint and jlong.

Execution:-

java -Djava.library.path=. HelloWorld

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Next,

JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_HelloWorld_print( JNIEnv* env , jobject obj){
    printf("Hello World!\n");
}

Just see the small changes made and try to implement it.