JNA - C++ Shared Library

Question

I have a project consisting of various headers and .cpp files. With this I built a shared library with Eclipse and everything is ok. Now I want to use JNA with this C++ library. I am aware of other (maybe easier) options than JNA but it is obligatory to use this. I have searched around the web but to be honest I have not found until now a quite easy example to understand what I have to do and go on. I have tested some examples but they only consist of one header and one .cpp with very small functions and are not helpful for me at all. I have also found a tool called JNAerator which is supposed to simplify the procedure (if I understand well at least) but also the examples for it are limited. So I would really appreciate it if someone could explain me the steps to do this I want (C++ shared library with many headers and .cpp ---> JNA) and/or provide me links with examples.

Answer 1

Altough you did mention JNA is mandatory, did you consider using bridj , javacpp or swig ?

If you really insist of using JNA then you have to hand-write C interfaces to the C++ API. Some examples I found: (1) , (2) , (3) , (4) (google is endless ;-). For specific questions you may also try the jna user group .