# Does anyone maintain multi-platform java builds? Is there nay hope for getting official builds with Java?
**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/does-anyone-maintain-multi-platform-java-builds-is-there-nay-hope-for-getting-official-builds-with-java/13286
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 8, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/does-anyone-maintain-multi-platform-java-builds-is-there-nay-hope-for-getting-official-builds-with-java/13286 "2024-02-08T22:07:29Z")
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### Author:  [@kevinmilner](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/kevinmilner)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/does-anyone-maintain-multi-platform-java-builds-is-there-nay-hope-for-getting-official-builds-with-java/13286/1 "2024-02-08T22:07:29Z")
I use a Java code that is built on top of VTK, and it’s a real bummer that builds aren’t available with Java from Kitware.
When we switched from Java3D to VTK years ago, I built VTK with the Java extensions for OS X, Windows, and Linux. Because of just how painful it is to build VTK (and the need to have systems of each platform to do the builds), we’re still on VTK 8.1. Now with the new Mac M1/2/3/N chips, those builds no longer work for some of my collaborators.
I’m wondering if anyone out there maintains builds of VTK with Java enabled? Or if there is any hope that official builds might be released with the java extensions? [This post](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/installation-of-vtk-9-0-with-python-java-wrappers/3325/6) mentions that they are generated as part of nightly testing, but I can’t seem to find them. I would prefer release builds to nightlies, but I’ll do just about anything to not have to manually build VTK on 4 architectures (or even 1…it’s painful).
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### Author:  [@thegbiv](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/thegbiv)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/does-anyone-maintain-multi-platform-java-builds-is-there-nay-hope-for-getting-official-builds-with-java/13286/2 "2024-12-28T17:28:08Z")
Hi, the setup described in the thread linked below is working for me and I think will be the way going forward.
> [@Building vtk 9.4.0 on windows Java](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/building-vtk-9-4-0-on-windows-java/14936/58):
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> I corrected the issue of not including the JNI libs in the macOS and Linux native jars. The fix is now in current VTK master and in the latest snapshot VTK Maven packages in Github. Please try it.
I was thinking of creating a sample using that setup and posting in GitHub but haven’t been too motivated since the holidays 😏.
Let me know if that would be helpful and I could try to get something out there in the next couple of days