Eclipse MapServer libmapscript.so: cannot open shared object file

[Ryan Ollerenshaw]

Quoting Norman Barker <nbarker at ittvis.com>:

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> When trying to create a java application using eclipse i get the
> following
> error:
>
> java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: libmapscript: libmapscript.so: cannot
> open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> Here is my code:
>
> import  edu.umn.gis.mapscript.*;
> import java.io.*;
>
> public class HelloServlet {
>
> 	public static void main(String[] args) {
>
> 	System.loadLibrary("mapscript");
> 	      mapObj  map;
> 	      imageObj image;
>
> 	      map=new
> mapObj("/var/www/html/mapserver/htdocs/display.map");
> 	      map.setProjection("init=epsg:4326");
> 	      image=map.draw();
> 	      image.save("test.png",map);
>     }
> }
>
> Ryan,
>
> You need to add the path variable to eclipse, so in eclipse do the
> following
>
> Run -> Run -> (select your configuration) -> Environment -> add a
> variable called path and set it to /usr/local/lib (or /usr/lib)
>
> Similary in Tomcat, or JBoss, you need to add -Djava.library.path=... to
> run.bat
>
> Norman
>

thank you but still no luck i am getting the same error message, and i am
running Apache on Fedora Core 5 if that helps any.