Re: Error: Pointer type needed instead of JNIEnv_

From:
"Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:19:23 -0700
Message-ID:
<w6Btk.19427$jI5.8388@flpi148.ffdc.sbc.com>
TsanChung wrote:

How to fix the error in
ret = (*env)->NewStringUTF(env, newstring);


env is a pointer; *env is not. So change it to

    ret = env->NewStringUTF(env, newstring);

C++ on solaris 10?

# CC -Kpic -G -o libfoo.so -I/usr/java/include -I/usr/java/include/
solaris foo.cpp -z text
"foo.cpp", line 26: Error: Pointer type needed instead of JNIEnv_.
1 Error(s) detected.

foo.cpp:
#include <algorithm>
#include <jni.h>
#include "JNIFoo.h"

JNIEXPORT jstring JNICALL Java_JNIFoo_nativeFoo (JNIEnv *env,
jobject
obj)
{
int i;
int ds_ret;

char* newstring;

jstring ret = 0;

newstring = (char*)new char[30];

if(newstring == NULL)
{
return ret;
}

std::fill(newstring, newstring + 30, 0);

newstring = (char *) "foo: Test program of JNI.\n";

ret = (*env)->NewStringUTF(env, newstring);

delete [] newstring;

return ret;
}

JNIFoo.java:
public class JNIFoo {
   public native String nativeFoo();

   static {
       System.loadLibrary("foo");
   }

   public void print () {
   String str = nativeFoo();
   System.out.println(str);
   }

   public static void main(String[] args) {
   (new JNIFoo()).print();
   return;
   }
}

# javac JNIFoo.java
# javah -jni JNIFoo

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