How to properly link to shared library in the NDK

[Gabi Zuniga]

I am trying to access a shared library from the NDK code and I am getting a run time error, not able to find the library.

I tried both cmake and ndk-build (following this https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/prebuilts.html) without success.

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: dlopen failed: library "./obj/local/arm64-v8a/libstellite.so" not found

                                                     at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:977)

It seems like the library is expected to be in a particular location and is not there.

I was able to load the library manually with System.loadLibrary() however the implicit load was still failing.

Is there a way to force the implicit load to look in the library path?

[Dan Albert]

I'm not sure what implicit loading you're referring to. Do you mean you're calling `System.loadLibrary` on some other library that depends on libstellite.so? If that's the case, it looks like you're missing an SONAME entry for libstellite (as in the library wasn't built with `-soname libstellite.so` in it's ldflags; ndk-build does this automatically, but I can't speak for all the other options).

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: dlopen failed: library "./obj/local/arm64-v8a/libstellite.so" not found

Hmm. That's not the path it should have. Should be "libs/arm64-v8a/libstellite.so" iirc. Certainly not obj. This is certainly a system of a missing SONAME.

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