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It provides the ability to painlessly identify, extract\nand load the correct platform-specific native library from a JAR file.\n\n\n##### License\n\nSimplified BSD License\n\n\n# Usage\n\n### Add dependency\n\nSearch Maven Central for [latest version](http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|a:native-lib-loader)\nand add a dependency to your pom.xml.\n\n```xml\n\u003cdependency\u003e\n    \u003cgroupId\u003eorg.scijava\u003c/groupId\u003e\n    \u003cartifactId\u003enative-lib-loader\u003c/artifactId\u003e\n    \u003cversion\u003ex.y.z\u003c/version\u003e\n\u003c/dependency\u003e\n```\n\n### Package native libraries\n\nNative libraries should be packaged into a single jar file, with the\nfollowing directory \u0026 file structure:\n\n```\n/natives\n  /linux_32\n     libxxx[-vvv].so\n  /linux_64\n     libxxx[-vvv].so\n  /osx_32\n     libxxx[-vvv].dylib\n  /osx_64\n     libxxx[-vvv].dylib\n  /osx_arm64\n     libxxx[-vvv].dylib\n  /windows_32\n     xxx[-vvv].dll\n  /windows_64\n     xxx[-vvv].dll\n  /windows_arm64\n     xxx[-vvv].dll\n  /aix_32\n     libxxx[-vvv].so\n     libxxx[-vvv].a\n  /aix_64\n     libxxx[-vvv].so\n     libxxx[-vvv].a\n```\n\nHere \"xxx\" is the name of the native library and \"-vvv\" is an optional version number.\nDepending on the platform at runtime, a native library will be unpacked into a temporary file\nand will be loaded from there.\n\nThe version information will be grabbed from the MANIFEST.mf file\nfrom \"Implementation-Version\" entry. 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