I am trying to install Ghostscript on my Linux server so that Ghost4j's PDF Utilities can be used.
I installed Ghostscript with LinuxBrew and added the path to Ghostscript binary to $PATH. So after this point, I was getting the following error:
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Unable to load library 'gs': Native library (linux-x86-64/libgs.so) not found in resource path
at com.sun.jna.NativeLibrary.loadLibrary(NativeLibrary.java:271)
at com.sun.jna.NativeLibrary.getInstance(NativeLibrary.java:398)
at com.sun.jna.Library$Handler.<init>(Library.java:147)
at com.sun.jna.Native.loadLibrary(Native.java:412)
at com.sun.jna.Native.loadLibrary(Native.java:391)
at org.ghost4j.GhostscriptLibraryLoader.loadLibrary(GhostscriptLibraryLoader.java:39)
at org.ghost4j.GhostscriptLibrary.<clinit>(GhostscriptLibrary.java:36)
at org.ghost4j.Ghostscript.initialize(Ghostscript.java:323)
At this step, it was able to load and execute to GhostscriptLibrary.
After doing some research, I added symlink ln -s path/to/Ghostscript/lib/libgs.so.9.22 /usr/lib/libgs.so following this thread Unable to load library 'gs': libgs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory and this resolved the previous error but gave another error:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.ghost4j.GhostscriptLibrary at
org.ghost4j.Ghostscript.initialize(Ghostscript.java:323)
The jar file (ghost4j-1.0.1.jar) containing the class GhostscriptLibrary is in the classpath and it works completely fine locally on my Mac.
I am using Ghostscript 9.22 and Ghost4j 1.0.1
Any help would be great :)
I was able to resolve the above error by uninstalling Ghostscript and reinstalling it with the instructions on this page http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/gs.html and set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the path to the .so files.
It was an issue with not being about to correctly load the native library, which was causing the second error regardlessly.