C++ JNI wants to install Mac Legacy JRE6

Question

I have JDK8 installed and my JAVA_HOME is set to the correct path for that. I can use Java without any problems. However, when I try to run Java code from C++, it prompts me to install a really old version of JRE6.

In my code I have:

JavaVMInitArgs vm_args;
vm_args.version = JNI_VERSION_1_8;

so it is weird that JRE6 is being requested. How can I get C++ JNI to use my existing JDK8 installation?

Answer 1

For some reason this happens when code uses libjvm.dylib . There's also libjli.dylib which has the same functions but skips the JRE 6 dialog. I've never bothered to check why it is that way.

If you link with -ljvm , replace this with -ljli . If you use dlopen together with dlsym just use the other library name there.