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Native Libraries
This page covers problems you may have getting JRuby to load its own native libraries or libraries you have supplied to it.
JRuby uses an FFI subsystem (built atop the jnr family of libraries to provide both Ruby's FFI API and to bind native functions we use from Java. Either of these modes can run into issues if there's special configuration required for Java Native Interface (Java's native library API) libraries to load.
The first line of attack is to pass -Xnative.verbose=true to JRuby itself so it will log errors that occur during startup of our FFI subsystem. Or if you're using it in its jar form: java -Djruby.native.verbose=true -jar jrubycomplete.jar ...
If errors indicate that our own FFI library (libjffi or jffi.dll) cannot load, you may be able to force the JVM to look in a different location for the library. It should be provided in our lib/jni directory, so you may try passing -Djava.library.path=<path to lib/jni>.
If a library you are trying to load with Ruby FFI does not load, or if a library other than libjffi can't load, you may need to configure the equivalent of LD_LIBRARY_PATH on your platform, keeping in mind that some OSes may have different paths for 32 versus 64-bit code.
This message may indicate that you are unable to load the native libjffi library, as described above, or it may mean we do not ship a binary for your platform. If it is the latter case, you can build and contribute a binary of jffi. See https://github.com/jnr/jffi/blob/master/README.md#building.
Here's some other articles by folks who have resolved native library issues under JRuby.
If you get the failure NotImplementedError: fstat unimplemented unsupported or native support failed to load
If you proceed to run it with -Djruby.native.verbose=true and it says java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Unable to execute or load jffi binary stub from /tmp. Set TMPDIR or Java property java.io.tmpdir to a read/write path that is not mounted "noexec". jffi...so failed to map segment from shared object: Operation not permitted then [see here] for more information (https://github.com/jruby/jruby/issues/1302#issuecomment-840735752).