# VTK java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-java-lang-unsatisfiedlinkerror/11719
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 14, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-java-lang-unsatisfiedlinkerror/11719 "2023-06-14T17:41:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Salu\_Ramos](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/salu_ramos/32/7275_2.png) [@Salu\_Ramos](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Salu_Ramos)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-java-lang-unsatisfiedlinkerror/11719/1 "2023-06-14T17:41:06Z")

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Trying to run/debug my project using intellij (windows), got errors like:

```auto
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no vtk{Anything} in java.library.path

```

{Anything} can be any class of vtk i’m trying to use, for example:

```auto
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no vtkRenderingCoreJava in java.library.path
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no vtkFiltersModelingJava in java.library.path
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no vtkViewsContext2DJava in java.library.path
etc...

```

I know this problem can be solved adding `-Djava.library.path=` to VM option. I had a very similar problem with simpleITK and solved it: [Where do i get SimpleITK JNI Lib?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76472858/where-do-i-get-simpleitk-jni-lib)

But my answer now is: How can i get JNI lib for vtk? Or native lib? Or any file that solves my problem? I tried with this one but doesn’t work: [https://people.ece.ubc.ca/andrewkh/vtk-jni.html](https://people.ece.ubc.ca/andrewkh/vtk-jni.html)

then, i try following this: [installation of vtk 9.0 with python, java wrappers](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/installation-of-vtk-9-0-with-python-java-wrappers/3325)

i ‘git clone VTK’ and use cmake/visual-studio to make a build. configuration is Debug x64 ALL-BUILD, using VTK\_WRAP\_JAVA=ON. my build finish with no errors, but now i dont know what is the path to the file that i need to put into `-Djava.library.path=`

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### Author: ![Sebastien\_Jourdain](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/sebastien_jourdain/32/100_2.png) [@Sebastien\_Jourdain](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Sebastien_Jourdain)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-java-lang-unsatisfiedlinkerror/11719/2 "2023-06-14T20:04:13Z")

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Normally if your target is just Java, you have other options (in cmake) that will build a jar with those dlls in. So that path should not be an issue either.

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### Author: ![Salu\_Ramos](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/salu_ramos/32/7275_2.png) [@Salu\_Ramos](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Salu_Ramos)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-java-lang-unsatisfiedlinkerror/11719/3 "2023-06-14T20:11:55Z")

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Can you please provide the names of these options? Or at least give me an idea of what they are called? Thanks!!

just for complement, running this:

```auto
        int totalNotLoaded = 0;
        if (!vtkNativeLibrary.LoadAllNativeLibraries()) {
            for (vtkNativeLibrary lib : vtkNativeLibrary.values()) {
                if (!lib.IsLoaded()) {
                    totalNotLoaded += 1;
                    System.out.println(totalNotLoaded + " - " + lib.GetLibraryName() + " NOT LOADED");
                }
            }
        }
        vtkNativeLibrary.DisableOutputWindow(null);

```

prints this:

1 - vtkViewsInfovisJava NOT LOADED  
2 - vtkCommonColorJava NOT LOADED  
3 - vtkViewsContext2DJava NOT LOADED  
4 - vtkTestingRenderingJava NOT LOADED  
5 - vtkRenderingVolumeOpenGL2Java NOT LOADED  
6 - vtkRenderingLabelJava NOT LOADED  
7 - vtkRenderingLODJava NOT LOADED  
8 - vtkRenderingImageJava NOT LOADED  
9 - vtkRenderingContextOpenGL2Java NOT LOADED  
10 - vtkIOVeraOutJava NOT LOADED  
11 - vtkIOTecplotTableJava NOT LOADED  
12 - vtkIOSegYJava NOT LOADED  
13 - vtkIOParallelXMLJava NOT LOADED  
14 - vtkIOParallelJava NOT LOADED  
15 - vtkIOPLYJava NOT LOADED  
16 - vtkIOOggTheoraJava NOT LOADED  
17 - vtkIONetCDFJava NOT LOADED  
18 - vtkIOMotionFXJava NOT LOADED  
19 - vtkIOMINCJava NOT LOADED  
20 - vtkIOLSDynaJava NOT LOADED  
21 - vtkIOInfovisJava NOT LOADED  
22 - vtkIOImportJava NOT LOADED  
23 - vtkIOIOSSJava NOT LOADED  
24 - vtkIOHDFJava NOT LOADED  
25 - vtkIOVideoJava NOT LOADED  
26 - vtkIOMovieJava NOT LOADED  
27 - vtkIOExportPDFJava NOT LOADED  
28 - vtkIOExportGL2PSJava NOT LOADED  
29 - vtkRenderingGL2PSOpenGL2Java NOT LOADED  
30 - vtkIOExportJava NOT LOADED  
31 - vtkRenderingVtkJSJava NOT LOADED  
32 - vtkIOGeometryJava NOT LOADED  
33 - vtkRenderingSceneGraphJava NOT LOADED  
34 - vtkIOExodusJava NOT LOADED  
35 - vtkIOEnSightJava NOT LOADED  
36 - vtkIOCityGMLJava NOT LOADED  
37 - vtkIOChemistryJava NOT LOADED  
38 - vtkIOCONVERGECFDJava NOT LOADED  
39 - vtkIOCGNSReaderJava NOT LOADED  
40 - vtkIOAsynchronousJava NOT LOADED  
41 - vtkIOAMRJava NOT LOADED  
42 - vtkInteractionImageJava NOT LOADED  
43 - vtkImagingStencilJava NOT LOADED  
44 - vtkImagingStatisticsJava NOT LOADED  
45 - vtkImagingMorphologicalJava NOT LOADED  
46 - vtkImagingMathJava NOT LOADED  
47 - vtkImagingFourierJava NOT LOADED  
48 - vtkIOSQLJava NOT LOADED  
49 - vtkGeovisCoreJava NOT LOADED  
50 - vtkInfovisLayoutJava NOT LOADED  
51 - vtkViewsCoreJava NOT LOADED  
52 - vtkInteractionWidgetsJava NOT LOADED  
53 - vtkRenderingVolumeJava NOT LOADED  
54 - vtkRenderingAnnotationJava NOT LOADED  
55 - vtkImagingHybridJava NOT LOADED  
56 - vtkImagingColorJava NOT LOADED  
57 - vtkInteractionStyleJava NOT LOADED  
58 - vtkFiltersTopologyJava NOT LOADED  
59 - vtkFiltersSelectionJava NOT LOADED  
60 - vtkFiltersSMPJava NOT LOADED  
61 - vtkFiltersProgrammableJava NOT LOADED  
62 - vtkFiltersPointsJava NOT LOADED  
63 - vtkFiltersVerdictJava NOT LOADED  
64 - vtkFiltersParallelImagingJava NOT LOADED  
65 - vtkFiltersImagingJava NOT LOADED  
66 - vtkImagingGeneralJava NOT LOADED  
67 - vtkFiltersHyperTreeJava NOT LOADED  
68 - vtkFiltersGenericJava NOT LOADED  
69 - vtkFiltersFlowPathsJava NOT LOADED  
70 - vtkFiltersAMRJava NOT LOADED  
71 - vtkFiltersParallelJava NOT LOADED  
72 - vtkFiltersTextureJava NOT LOADED  
73 - vtkFiltersModelingJava NOT LOADED  
74 - vtkFiltersHybridJava NOT LOADED  
75 - vtkDomainsChemistryOpenGL2Java NOT LOADED  
76 - vtkRenderingOpenGL2Java NOT LOADED  
77 - vtkRenderingUIJava NOT LOADED  
78 - vtkDomainsChemistryJava NOT LOADED  
79 - vtkChartsCoreJava NOT LOADED  
80 - vtkInfovisCoreJava NOT LOADED  
81 - vtkFiltersExtractionJava NOT LOADED  
82 - vtkIOXMLJava NOT LOADED  
83 - vtkIOXMLParserJava NOT LOADED  
84 - vtkParallelCoreJava NOT LOADED  
85 - vtkIOLegacyJava NOT LOADED  
86 - vtkIOCoreJava NOT LOADED  
87 - vtkFiltersStatisticsJava NOT LOADED  
88 - vtkImagingSourcesJava NOT LOADED  
89 - vtkIOImageJava NOT LOADED  
90 - vtkRenderingContext2DJava NOT LOADED  
91 - vtkRenderingFreeTypeJava NOT LOADED  
92 - vtkRenderingCoreJava NOT LOADED  
93 - vtkFiltersSourcesJava NOT LOADED  
94 - vtkImagingCoreJava NOT LOADED  
95 - vtkFiltersGeometryJava NOT LOADED  
96 - vtkFiltersGeneralJava NOT LOADED  
97 - vtkCommonComputationalGeometryJava NOT LOADED  
98 - vtkFiltersCoreJava NOT LOADED  
99 - vtkCommonExecutionModelJava NOT LOADED  
100 - vtkCommonDataModelJava NOT LOADED  
101 - vtkCommonSystemJava NOT LOADED  
102 - vtkCommonMiscJava NOT LOADED  
103 - vtkCommonTransformsJava NOT LOADED  
104 - vtkCommonMathJava NOT LOADED  
105 - vtkCommonCoreJava NOT LOADED

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### Author: ![Sebastien\_Jourdain](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/sebastien_jourdain/32/100_2.png) [@Sebastien\_Jourdain](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Sebastien_Jourdain)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2023, 11:27pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-java-lang-unsatisfiedlinkerror/11719/4 "2023-06-14T23:27:01Z")

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run `ccmake` or `cmake-gui` and search for java.

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### Author: ![Salu\_Ramos](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/salu_ramos/32/7275_2.png) [@Salu\_Ramos](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Salu_Ramos)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2023, 12:29pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-java-lang-unsatisfiedlinkerror/11719/5 "2023-06-15T12:29:31Z")

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> [@Salu\_Ramos](#):
>
> VTK\_WRAP\_JAVA=ON

there is just one named VTK\_WRAP\_JAVA, i tagged it and did the build.  
No errors, but now where are the dll’s?

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### Author: ![Sebastien\_Jourdain](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/sebastien_jourdain/32/100_2.png) [@Sebastien\_Jourdain](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Sebastien_Jourdain)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2023, 3:04pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-java-lang-unsatisfiedlinkerror/11719/6 "2023-06-15T15:04:32Z")

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Nothing more in the advanced list? If that is the case, maybe it happen by default on install. Did you run `cmake --install --prefix ./install .`
