Is it possible to link a static library to Java through JNI?

Question

Is it possible to build a HelloWorld.lib and load it to a Java application using JNI? Or it just works with shared libraries?

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Answer 1

You would have to link it to the JVM, and you don't have a way to do that. That's why JNI is defined with shared libraries, not static ones.