Talk:Loading libraries and natives from path

Keep native libs in folders

When you download the LWJGL package the libraries are in folders.
To keep the good structure and to avoid to just drop everything into one folder, I wrote a few lines of code.

The structure for my example is:

<YourDirectory>
  ├── libs
  │   ├── lwjgl.jar
  │   ├── slick.jar
  │   └── natives
  │       ├── freebsd
  │       ├── linux
  │       ├── macosx
  │       ├── solaris
  │       ├── windows
  └── YourProgram.jar

The following code will set the right native folder:

public static void main(final String[] args) {
// Set the native library for LWJGL
String operatingSystem = System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase();
	if (operatingSystem.startsWith("windows")) {
		operatingSystem = "windows";
	}
	else if (operatingSystem.startsWith("mac")) {
		operatingSystem = "macosx";
	}
	else if (operatingSystem.startsWith("linux")) {
		operatingSystem = "linux";
	}
	else if (operatingSystem.startsWith("solaris")) {
		operatingSystem = "solaris";
	}
	else if (operatingSystem.startsWith("free")) {
		operatingSystem = "freebsd";
	}
	System.setProperty("org.lwjgl.librarypath", new File("libs/natives/" + operatingSystem).getAbsolutePath());

	// Initialize AppGameContainer here...
}

--3Dx2Yz (talk) 16:35, 17 November 2013 (PST)