How to dispatch the same method call on different platforms?

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

Hi Pedro,
I'm told the right mailing list for that is:

https://mail.openjdk.org/mailman/listinfo/jigsaw-dev

Cheers
Maurizio


On 19/02/2024 15:25, Pedro Lamarão wrote:
> Em dom., 18 de fev. de 2024 às 08:38, Maurizio Cimadamore 
> <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> escreveu:
>
>     On Linux, you can do `loaderLookup("libc.so.6")` and that works
>     fine - no custom logic is needed. The problem of shipping native
>     libraries into maven modules, on the other hand, is one that still
>     requires manual workarounds. But I believe that to be more a
>     problem of the tool we're "forced" to work with (Maven/Gradle):
>     there's _no sane way_ to load a shared library from a zip file (or
>     from some random memory address). Meaning that, to do that, you
>     need to copy the library _somewhere_ before loading, which can
>     come with its own set of issues (e.g. no write access, not even to
>     "/tmp"). A qualitatively better solution would be to use jmods and
>     custom JDK images (with jlink) which can deal with native
>     libraries just fine, but unfortunately these things are not
>     supported by the build tools we have today. This is another of
>     these follow-up activity that will likely fall out from the
>     initial FFM addition.
>
>
> Is there an appropriate place to send "enhancement requests" to jlink?
> This discussion has reminded me of blockers to the adoption of jlink 
> in my work, and perhaps it is time to express them.
> I am familiar with Gradle and the community "jlink" plugin, and would 
> be interested in sending them PRs on these topics.
> My shop does JCA providers and currently jlink does not properly embed 
> those.
>
> -- 
> Pedro Lamarão
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