Having trouble making a jar on linux

[Raelifin]

Hey, I'm trying to compile my project into a jar, but I'm having trouble linking the native (liblwjgl.so) into the project's classpath. When I make a jar on windows it works as long as I include lwjgl.dll in the root folder next to the jar, but this fails on linux. I can make and run jars just fine as long as they don't require an external library. Any help here would be wonderful, as googling it hasn't gotten me anything.

Thanks!
- Max

Using:

• Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (Gutsy)
• Eclipse 3.2.2 SDK
• FatJar utility (for compressing the jar)
• lwjgl 1.1.3
• Slick - a library by Kevin Glass (http://slick.cokeandcode.com/)

EDIT: Oh, and I figure it'd be relevant to include the error, which, predictably is:
"Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no lwjgl in java.library.path"

[Raelifin]

Okay, I feel stupid now. After talking with a friend over IM, I am now versed in the "-Djava" command.

For the sake of those who are having the same problem, the solution is to run the jar with the following command:

java -Djava.library.path=./ -jar YourProject.jar

Make sure you have the .so file in the same directory too, or else change the path to where it is located.

Sorry for the wasted thread.

[Matzon]

It's a general issue, and not one we can do a lot about.
Basically the native files can be anywhere on your system - as long as you specify the path to them using -Djava.library.path=/path/to/native
Normally its fine to have it in the current working directory, but it seems that linux doesn't like that, which is why you have to specify ./ which is current folder.