JNA version upgrade for Mac M1 chip

[mzouink]

I am using a Mac M1 and I have a problem with j-blosc and j-hdf5
Exception: (fat file, but missing compatible architecture (have 'i386,x86_64', need 'arm64e'))
Both of them can be solved by installing the c-blosc using homebrew and specifying it in the JVM runtime params
-Djna.library.path=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/c-blosc/1.21.1/lib/
But this only worked with the new version of jna 5.11.0

pom-scijava/pom.xml

Line 1685 in da5bc55

<jna.version>4.5.2</jna.version>

So it is possible to upgrade jna version to 5.11.0 ?

[ctrueden]

@mzouink I'd love to upgrade this, but it might be a little involved. Not sure until we try.

@mkitti How would this affect your current work on JHDF5 and libblosc?

[mkitti]

I worked on this with @mzouink earlier.

This is definitely an important intersecting piece of the puzzle. JNA has a native jnidispatch shared library that it needs to function.

For JBlosc support, we need a

1. jnidispatch native library
2. Blosc native library

The jnidispatch library only has aarch64 support since version 5 apparently.

[mkitti]

Is it easier to compile and add a new aarch64 binary to JNA 4 ourselves than to upgrade to JNA 5?

[NicoKiaru]

Related? There's a checklist by @ctrueden regarding some of the changes involved
#163

[mzouink]

@mkitti and i will go through the checklist here #163 (comment) today. and we will reach you back

[ctrueden]

Is it easier to compile and add a new aarch64 binary to JNA 4 ourselves than to upgrade to JNA 5?

I doubt it. And even if so: we should prefer to move forward. It would create more technical maintenance debt, increasing over time, to resist the update.

[ctrueden]

Shall we close this in favor of #163? I had forgotten about that issue.

[ctrueden]

Closing in favor of #163.