How to add an external library (OpenCV .jar file) to the Java build path from the command line (Unix)

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I am trying to add the OpenCV library to the build path for my Java program from the terminal so that I can use a shell script to run the program on a bunch of image files sequentially. The .class files for my project are located in Documents/Programming/Ko/bin and the .jar file for the OpenCV library is located in Documents/Programming/opencv-2.4.10/build/bin. As suggested from a number of different questions on here, I have tried (while in the Ko/bin directory):

java -cp "/Users/jordan/Documents/Programming/opencv-2.4.10/build/bin/*:." Ko <image_name>

Which produces the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no opencv_java2410 in java.library.path
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1857)
    at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:870)
    at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1119)
    at Ko.main(Ko.java:37)

So the program runs into an issue at line 37. This line is:

System.loadLibrary(Core.NATIVE_LIBRARY_NAME);

I added this line after running into issues loading the OpenCV library in Eclipse, from the advice of another question on here, although I'm not exactly sure what it does or why it is necessary. When I try commenting out this line I get a similar error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: org.opencv.highgui.Highgui.imread_0(Ljava/lang/String;I)J
    at org.opencv.highgui.Highgui.imread_0(Native Method)
    at org.opencv.highgui.Highgui.imread(Highgui.java:309)
    at Ko.main(Ko.java:39)

This time at line 39, which logically is the first time I call a method from the OpenCV library.

As far as I can tell, the way I'm writing the java -cp ... command is identical to what has worked for others from the questions I've read on here. If anyone could tell me where I'm going wrong and could explain why the call to System.loadLibrary() is necessary in this particular case when in other cases of importing libraries it is not, it would be greatly appreciated.

Rooke · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-15 20:24:57Z

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The problem was that the command line had no knowledge of where the native libraries were on disk (i.e. the opencv2.so file). After adding an extra flag to the command and specifying the path to the native libraries, the program executed correctly:

java -D'java.library.path=<path to native libraries>' -cp '<path to Ko.class>:<path to opencv-2.4.x jar file>' Ko <path to input image file>

The first flag (-D) sets the java.library.path variable to the native libraries specific to this application so that the JRE knows where the jar file is linking to. The second flag (-cp) sets the class path (which directories the JRE looks in for files to run). These directories are separated by colons (:) on OSX/Linux/Unix and separated by semicolons (;) on Windows.

Hope this helps anyone who runs across this problem in the future.

edited Apr 15, 2015 at 20:24

Rooke

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answered Apr 15, 2015 at 19:45

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