Problem with gnu.io.RXTXCommDriver

[Jach00]

Hello,
I have raspberry pi3 with raspbian and java 8 jdk installed.

I have program which uses https://github.com/NeuronRobotics/nrjavaserial . It works perfectly on Windows, but when i tried to run it on raspberry I got:

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java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: gnu.io.RXTXCommDriver.nativeGetVersion()Ljava/lang/String; 
thrown while loading gnu.io.RXTXCommDriver
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class gnu.io.RXTXCommDriver thrown while loading gnu.io.RXTXCommDriver

I installed rxtx by

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sudo apt-get install librxtx-java

like it was shown here: viewtopic.php?f=81&t=69414

App is started by this command:

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java -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni -cp /usr/share/java/RXTXcomm.jar:. -jar appName.jar

[nadgetastic]

Don't use the RxTx library, it's outdated, unsupported and problematic to install.
Use http://fazecast.github.io/jSerialComm/ - same features without all the hassle of manually installing native binaries

[cpunk]

Another RxTx user here, and thanks for the tip. Will try the alternative in my next project. :)

My personal experience is that it works better with OpenJDK JVM, as opposed the Oracle JVM. Probably another of those library loading issues. Most likely quite solvable, but needs lots of trying.

[cpunk]

So I tested them, with as much time I had.

I needed to get a Scanse Sweep rotating lidar working, and get it working soon...

...I wrote the initial code for jSerialComm and it worked on my laptop. On a Pi 0W unit, it mysteriously did nothing, with no error messages whatsoever. The port opened, but no commands seemed to reach the lidar unit.

So in the end, I turned to Pi4j and got it working. Pi4j apparently supports all kinds of ports, not only GIPO and SPI, but also serial. :)