Failed to load JavaHL Library

Question

After updating to Snow Lion I started receiving these errors in Flash Builder / Eclipse when trying to use SVN:

Failed to load JavaHL Library.
These are the errors that were encountered:
no libsvnjavahl-1 in java.library.path
/opt/subversion/lib/libsvnjavahl-1.0.dylib:  Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libpq.5.dylib   Referenced from: /opt/subversion/lib/libsvnjavahl-1.0.dylib   Reason: no suitable image found.  Did find:  /usr/lib/libpq.5.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture  /usr/lib/libpq.5.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
no svnjavahl in java.library.path
java.library.path = .:/Library/Java/Extensions:/System/Library/Java/Extensions:/usr/lib/java

Answer 1

You may or may not need JavaHL depending on your OS. In addition to other suggestions just posting this here.

For other OS see this source: http://subclipse.tigris.org/wiki/JavaHL

Answer 2

i tried every single solution available and finally for me the problem was:

uninstall Native JavaHL 1.6

install everything under Subclipse from this site:

http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.10.x>

Answer 3

My Understanding - Basically, svn client comes by default on Mac os. While installing in eclipse we should match svn plugin to the mac plugin and javaHL wont be missing. There is a lengthy process to update by installing xcode and then by using homebrew or macports which you can find after googling but if you are in hurry use simply the steps below.

1) on your mac terminal shell

$ svn --version

Note down the version e.g. 1.7.

2) open the link below

http://subclipse.tigris.org/wiki/JavaHL

check which version of subclipse you need corresponding to it. e.g.

Subclipse Version SVN/JavaHL Version 1.8.x 1.7.x

3) ok, pick up url corresponding to 1.8.x from

http://subclipse.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectProcess?pageID=p4wYuA

and add to your eclipse => Install new Software under help

select whatever you need, svn client or subclipse or mylyn etc and it will ask for restart of STS/eclipse thats it you are done. worked for me.

NOTE: if you already have multiple versions installed inside your eclipse then its best to uninstall all subclipse or svn client versions from eclipse plugins and start fresh with steps listed above.

Answer 4

On Kubuntu, my path to the library changed because of installing another Java version. Here's the whole picture, but in short:

sudo apt-get install libsvn-java
sudo find / -name libsvnjavahl-1.so

The output from the last command could look like this, for example:

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/jni/libsvnjavahl-1.so

This gives you the path, so you can add the following to your eclipse.ini:

-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/jni/

Answer 5

Check out this blog. It has a ton of information. Also if installing through brew don´t miss this note:

You may need to link the Java bindings into the Java Extensions folder:

 $ sudo mkdir -p /Library/Java/Extensions
 $ sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libsvnjavahl-1.dylib /Library/Java/Extensions/libsvnjavahl-1.dylib