Are preset maven artifacts portable?

[benshiffman]

I just followed the directions on the "Create New Presets" page and successfully wrapped a native library of my own. My question is, how portable is the artifact that appears in my .m2/repositories folder? Ideally, I would like to have the wrapped lib as a standalone package that others on my team (provided they are on the same platform, windows-x86_64) can access without having to go through the javacpp install/build procedures themselves. Is this as simple as sharing the jar file?

As a somewhat-related follow-up, what is the difference between the (libname) and (libname)-platform artifacts?

Thanks!

[saudet]

Yes, just sharing the JAR files should work, as long as you bundle all the dependencies in those JAR files.

The platform artifacts on https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp-presets/wiki/Reducing-the-Number-of-Dependencies

[benshiffman]

Do you mean bundling the contents of (lib)/target? I read through reducing the number of dependencies and that all makes sense. It seems though that by file size alone that the binaries are not contained in (lib).jar, (lib)-platform.jar, nor (lib)-windows-x86_64.jar. Under the (lib)/target/native folder I do see that the jni binaries are being copied, but the original static and dynamic libraries don't seem to be connected.

[saudet]

You'll need to add those in the @Platform annotation as per https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp/wiki/Mapping-Recipes

[benshiffman]

Yup, I've included and linked all the headers and libs that I need following that.

[benshiffman]

I've been able to call native functions from a project using this as a dependency without a problem, just looking for a way to get these onto other devs' systems without going through the build process again.

[saudet]

Please follow the instructions at https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp-presets/wiki/Debugging-UnsatisfiedLinkError-on-Windows

[benshiffman]

Hadn't stumbled across that before--dependencywalker was very helpful. Seems like the (lib)-(platform).jar contains all that is needed. Thanks!