Lib folder for linux and windows

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Hi everyone, I'm a little confused about the lib folder and the files I have to use on linux and windows. When I started I downloaded a game example that came with these files below:

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jinput-dx8.dll      jme-terrain.jar        lwjgl_applet.jar
jinput.jar          jogg-0.0.7.jar        lwjgl.dll
jinput-raw.dll      jorbis-0.0.15.jar      lwjgl-fmod3.dll
jme-audio.jar        junit-4.1.jar          lwjgl_fmod3.jar
jme-awt.jar          libjinput-linux.so    lwjgl.jar
jme-collada.jar      libjinput-osx.jnilib  lwjgl_test.jar
jme-editors.jar      liblwjgl64.so          lwjgl_util_applet.jar
jme-effects.jar      liblwjgl-fmod3.jnilib  lwjgl_util.jar
jme-font.jar        liblwjgl-fmod3.so      mvn-lib-install
jme-gamestates.jar  liblwjgl.jnilib        odejava.dll
jme.jar              liblwjgl.so            odejava-jni.jar
jme-model.jar        libodejava64.so        OpenAL32.dll
jme-physics-all.jar  libodeja
I'm aware that .dll files are windows only but I'm not sure about linux files, I think they are those .so files. So my question is if anyone knows which files are required on each system.
Thanks in advance.
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.so = linux

.dll = windows

.jnilib = Mac OSX



.jar = java library



on linux some 64 bit compiled .so files are provided along side the 32 bit ones. OSX and Windows is only 32 bit afaik.

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Thanks, just to recap, these files (.dll, .so, .jnilib) are native for each platform to access the hardware, right?

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Yes (even though it is not necessarily to access the hardware, it could be to access a precompiled library written in another language as well).

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llama said:

on linux some 64 bit compiled .so files are provided along side the 32 bit ones. OSX and Windows is only 32 bit afaik.


Actually I didn't know this, what is the reason for only Linux?
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I don't think anyone who develops LWJGL has any 64 bit windows machines. And Java 5 is only available in 32 bit for OSX I think. Also, for linux it is a little bit harder to run 32 bit programs in a 64 bit enviroment than in windows, while it is probably a lot easier to (cross) compile a 64 bit version of LWJGL.



I've run jME on 64 bit windows with 64 libraries and VM for quite a while, however the user who did the 64 bit lwjgl builds on the forum here stopped doing them (and I no longer have a 64 bit PC by now).