Thread: Running jar with libraries from a jar file in linux

I'm running a jar of an application and library jars from lwjgl. I'm creating a java process. It's working on Windows but not on linux. I tried replacing the semicolons with colons but it didn't work, it just said "Main class not found: Application.natives.linux" or something like that. gamePath is the path the application is in. osName is the name of the operating system.

Here's my code:

    String jarRunner = String.format("java -Djava.library.path=\"%snatives/" + osName + "\" -cp \"%sjar/lwjgl.jar;%sjar/lwjgl_util.jar;%sjar/jinput.jar;%sjar/slick.jar;%sApplication.jar\" main.Main", gamePath, gamePath, gamePath, gamePath, gamePath, gamePath);
 
 
    Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(jarRunner);
 
    			InputStream s = p.getErrorStream();
 
    			while(true)
    			{
    				if(s.available() > 0)
    				{
    					byte[] bytes = new byte[s.available()];
    					s.read(bytes);
    					System.out.println(new String(bytes));
    				}
    			}

How can I make it work on linux?

You need to use colons (:) for the -cp argument.

Print jarRunner to System.out to see its final form. Copy the printout and run it on command line confirm that it has been constructed properly. If it is confirmed, then you may need to use string array variant of the exec() method.

I'm using colons, but I don't know how to convert this into an array for the exec method.

If you have a command, "/path/to/bin/java -cp /path/to/jars pkg.MainClass", break it up into separate strings as delimited by the space characters in the command, and assemble the strings into an array. E.g.,

String[] cmd = new String[] {"/path/to/bin/java", "-cp", "/path/to/jars", "pkg.MainClass"};
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);

Before you do that, repeating from my previous post,

Originally Posted by jashburn

Print jarRunner to System.out to see its final form. Copy the printout and run it on command line confirm that it has been constructed properly.

In other words, are you 100% the string referenced by jarRunner has been correctly constructed for Linux? Try to run the command as constructed for jarRunner on the command line first.

Now the syntax itself seems to be working. But it's not finding the main class when using -cp or can't acess the jar file when using -jar.

Please clarify what you mean by "syntax itself seems to be working." How is it that it is "working"? By "it's not finding the main class," do you mean if you type/paste the command that is constructed in jarRunner into the command line console, you an error message similar to the message in your first post? If there's an error message, please post here the error message in its entirety.

Please also post here the command that is constructed in jarRunner.