JNI Part 2: Visual Studio setup for DLL Project

Here is the simple steps to DLL project in Visual Studio

1. Open Visual Studio
2. Click File->New Project, and select Empty project
3. Write Name and select location
4. Click ok

1. Go to Project->Properties
2. On the left side, select general in configuration properties
3. Select Dynamic Library(.dll) as configuration Type

1. Next click C/C++
2. Add jdk include and win32 path in Additional Include Directories
3. If you have installed jdk in c program files then the path is
4. C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_18\include; C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_18\include\win32
5. Click OK button.

1. Now the configuration of the project is done. Next step is to add files to the project.
2. As shown in below image, right click on the “Header Files” folder and select Add, Existing Item
3. Select Header files and add to the project.

Finally solution explorer will look like:

1. Build Solution: Go to Build->Build Solution
2. Solve the errors if any found in output window.
3. Once the build is successful then the generated dll will be in the output directory.