Improve library loading - remove need for external dll on filesystem
There were a couple comments on Sourceforge on how the loading could be done differently. I forgot to copy those messages to GitHub before purging them on Sourceforge. This issue is a placeholder hoping that someone will reply with ideas.
Hi, I have not dones this myself, although perhaps this stack overflow answer may help:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1611357/how-to-make-a-jar-file-that-includes-dll-files
Timothy Breitenfeldt
The SO answer says correctly that the DLL has to end up in the file system anyway so it is hard to see the point of putting it into the JAR file.
Built a simple project that helps publish jars of the native code and extracts it at runtime. https://github.com/fizzed/jacob