Setting up JavaHL (JNI) support in Eclipse on Linux

6 Comments Published June 19th, 2008 in Java Tags: .

The error:
Selecting from Eclipse, Preferences>Team>SVN and select SVN interface: JavaHL(JNI) on Linux you get:

Failed to load JavaHL Library.
These are errors that were encountered:
no libsvnjavahl-1 in java.library.path
no svnjavahl-1 in java.library.path
no svnjavahl in java.library.path
java.library.path = /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.03/jre/lib/i368/client::/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.03/jre/lib/i386::/usr/lib/xulrunner-addons:/usr/lib/xulrunner/addons:/usr/java/packages/lib/i386:/lib:/usr/lib

The solution:
install Java bindings for Subversion libraries:

$ sudo apt-get install libsvn-java

This will install required JNI libraries on /usr/lib/jni.
Then, add this path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable before starting Eclipse. For convenience, you can do that creating a shell script like the following:

$ vi ~/bin/eclipse

#! /bin/sh
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/jni
/opt/eclipse/eclipse

Then make it executable:

$ chmod +x ~/bin/eclipse

To run eclipse then, just launch ~/bin/eclipse and enjoy native Subversion binding.

6 Responses to “Setting up JavaHL (JNI) support in Eclipse on Linux”

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1 Stuart Dec 10th, 2009 at 13:09

Thanks! This helped a lot.
2 Cay Horstmann Mar 3rd, 2010 at 00:21

If you don’t want to make a special shell script to launch Eclipse, you can also add a file /etc/ld.so.conf.d/jni.conf with the line /usr/lib/jni (follow /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc.conf for guidance). Run sudo ldconfig once so that the changes are picked up, then start Eclipse the way you usually do. (This is on Ubuntu 9.10.)
3 George Mar 11th, 2010 at 10:38

I am embedding svn into a web application using javahl…..i have libsvn-java installed,svn version 1.5.4,sun-java-6 on ubuntu jaunty jackalope(9.0.4)…i keep getting the following exception
“java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no svnjavahl-1 in java.library.path”………Does anyone know how to sort this issue?
4 Juan Apr 16th, 2010 at 13:41

Thank you very much Luigi programmer!!!!!!!!!!!

I had been trying to solve this problem for too many time, on my java superior school computer till today.

Two months ago I finish deleting eclipse netbeans and jbuilder on ubuntu just for the problem,
GRACIAS THANKS

:D
5 Gustavo Jul 16th, 2010 at 18:42

Hey Dude! that work like a charm! Thanks!