-ltinfo breaks the intall on Arch linux

[justgage]

This is perhaps very Arch linux specific but I found i had to remove this line line in avi/install.clj to get it to install on Arch. I think this is because ncurses-dev is bundled with the normal ncurses package on Arch but I'm not sure.

[eraserhd]

Hrmm. I know that I added that line to fix a build error on Ubuntu. I think the real solution is to break out the JNI stuff into a maven or autoconf-based project, but I'm pretty clueless on how to put jars with native dependencies in Maven. Let me ask on research that.

[smmckay]

There's nar-maven-plugin. AFAICT (haven't used it) binaries are packed in JARs with platform-specific classifiers. It also generates some glue code to unpack and load the binary.

There's also the option, which I have used, of building all your binaries into a single jar and doing the unpack/load yourself. Keeping the binaries up-to-date is kind of a pain, though.

[eraserhd]

@smmckay Thanks for the pointer.

I've been thinking a bit about this, and decided to look at JNA again. It looks like a good solution because it makes all the binary packaging Somebody Else's Problem.

It seems like I can do everything needed with it. I'll have to spike it out.