Eclipse RCP Step by Step

Native Library in Eclipse RCP Plug-in Adding native library in eclipse RCP is little-bit bit tricky part. Mainly native library has extensions like .so or .dll . There are multiple ways to define this kind of libraries to the eclipse RCP plug-in. (Follow steps one by one anyone of them will work.) Here we take one example : Suppose you have following directory structure <dirPath>/NativeLibraryDirectory/      --- nativeFile.jar      --- nativeLib.so 1. Adding library to the project For adding library to the project , right click on Project name -> select "Properties..." -> then go to "Java Build Path" Add nativeFile.jar from External jar button. Expand nativeFile.jar and double click on "native library location" enter the path "<dirPath>/NativeLibraryDirectory/" 2. Using LD_LIBRARY_PATH Set following environment before starting the Eclipse. setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH <dirPath>/NativeLibraryDirectory/:$LD_