jmockit: Native library for Attach API not available in this JRE error

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Dao Lam picture Dao Lam · Aug 15, 2012 · Viewed 27.2k times · Source

I was trying to use jmockit to unit test my project and got the following error:

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no attach in java.library.path
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Native library for Attach API not available in this JRE
    at mockit.internal.startup.JDK6AgentLoader.getVirtualMachineImplementationFromEmbeddedOnes(JDK6AgentLoader.java:95)
    at mockit.internal.startup.JDK6AgentLoader.loadAgent(JDK6AgentLoader.java:54)
    at mockit.internal.startup.AgentInitialization.initializeAccordingToJDKVersion(AgentInitialization.java:21)
    at mockit.internal.startup.Startup.initializeIfNeeded(Startup.java:98)
    at mockit.internal.startup.Startup.initializeIfPossible(Startup.java:112)
    at org.junit.runner.Runner.<clinit>(Runner.java:22)
    at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.safeRunnerForClass(RunnerBuilder.java:59)
    at org.junit.internal.builders.AllDefaultPossibilitiesBuilder.runnerForClass(AllDefaultPossibilitiesBuilder.java:29)
    at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.safeRunnerForClass(RunnerBuilder.java:57)
    at org.junit.internal.requests.ClassRequest.getRunner(ClassRequest.java:24)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.<init>(JUnit4TestReference.java:33)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestClassReference.<init>(JUnit4TestClassReference.java:25)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestLoader.createTest(JUnit4TestLoader.java:48)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestLoader.loadTests(JUnit4TestLoader.java:38)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:452)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197)
Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no attach in java.library.path

I have included jdk6/lib/tools.jar, jmockit.jar, and junit.jar in the classpath, respectively. Any clues why this is happening?

Answer

Mahmoud Saleh picture Mahmoud Saleh · Aug 9, 2014

Go to Java Build Path of your project and change the JRE System Library and make it points to the jdk instead of jre.

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