missing symbol called

[MirrorHuang]

When I try to do something like this (i.e. basic stuff)…

var java = require("java");  
var list = java.newInstanceSync("java.util.ArrayList");  
list.size(); 

…I get an error like this:

dyld[83934]: missing symbol called

environment

java: v1.8  
node: v16.14.1

Any idea what’s going wrong?

[kernoeb]

I'm able to reproduce this issue when I use Node 16/18 + arch x64 on macOS Monterey : Macbook Pro M1 (ARM).

arch -x86_64 zsh
nvm use 18
node main.js

---> dyld[7497]: missing symbol called

If I build the native module in ARM, and use Node.js ARM (process.arch), it works, but if I build the nodejavabridge in x64 arch, it gives me "missing symbol called" too.

I also tried to build the native module on a real x64 macOS virtual machine, then force use it by patch-packaging the bridge, without success.

Just for context, I'm using pkg, I would like to build a x64 executable and run it with Rosetta.

[kernoeb]

Update :

Thanks to https://groups.google.com/g/node-java/c/Yj4F7Zrbb0k, I succeed to use Java when DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES environment variable is set :

process.env.DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES = path.join(jrePath, 'lib', 'server', 'libjvm.dylib')

[arimus]

I've managed to get things working under Rosetta, which can be documented for the next person running into it. As mentioned, you can fully move everything into the arm64 space, however you can also move everything into the x64 space and execute under Rosetta. However, this requires downloading a JVM which is an x64 build manually and setting your JAVA_HOME to the absolute path of that installation.

I did this with:

node v20.12.0 (still issues building with node v22 unfortunately due to the node API mismatch #580)
jdk-21.0.6.jdk from here: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/?er=221886#jdk21-mac

And I did patch the compile-java.sh so that I could use a newer java version:

#javah -classpath src-java -d ./src node.NodeDynamicProxyClass
javac -classpath src-java -h src src-java/node/NodeDynamicProxyClass.java

All tests pass.