Using Panama "foreign" JDK

Using Panama "foreign" JDK

There are two ways to get a panama foreign branch JDK.

  1. Locally build "foreign" branch of panama repo http://hg.openjdk.java.net/panama/dev/
  2. Download pre-built panama "foreign" early access binaries from http://jdk.java.net/panama/

Using foreign function call in Java involves the following three steps:

  1. Use jextract tool to generate java interface for your C header file(s)
  2. Use java.foreign API to create ("bind") implementation for C header interfaces
  3. Invoke C functions via the jextracted Java interface

Windows notes

You will (almost always) need to have Visual Studio installed, since most libraries indirectly depend on Visual Studio runtime libraries and this currently means that jextract needs their header to extract successfully. Windows examples have been tested with Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017.

It is generally a good idea to give jextract a bunch of extra memory since a lot of big system headers are transitively included. The extra memory will make the jextract run significantly faster. Windows support was added only recently, and the memory usage of jextract has not been optimized yet, so this is a workaround. You can give extra memory by passing e.g. -J-Xmx8G to jextract as an additional argument, which in this example gives jextract 8 gigabytes of memory.

Commands are tested in PowerShell.

Embedding Python interpreter in your Java program (Mac OS)

jextract a Jar file for Python.h


jextract -l python2.7 \
  -L /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib --record-library-path \
  --exclude-symbols .*_FromFormatV\|_.*\|PyOS_vsnprintf\|.*_VaParse.*\|.*_VaBuild.*\|PyBuffer_SizeFromFormat\|vasprintf\|vfprintf\|vprintf\|vsprintf \
  -t org.python \
  /usr/include/python2.7/Python.h \
  -o python.jar

Java program that uses extracted Python interface


// import java.foreign packages
import java.foreign.Libraries;
import java.foreign.Scope;
import java.foreign.memory.Pointer;

// import jextracted python 'header' classes
import static org.python.Python_h.*;
import static org.python.pythonrun_h.*;

public class PythonMain {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Py_Initialize();
        try (Scope s = org.python.Python_h.scope().fork()) {
            PyRun_SimpleStringFlags(s.allocateCString(
                "print(sum([33, 55, 66])); print('Hello from Python!')\n"),
                Pointer.ofNull());
        }
        Py_Finalize();
    }
}

Running the Java code that calls Python interpreter


javac -cp python.jar PythonMain.java

java -cp python.jar:. PythonMain

jlinking Python Interpreter in your JDK (Mac OS)

Generating jmod using jextract


jextract -l python2.7 \
  -L /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib \
  --exclude-symbols .*_FromFormatV\|_.*\|PyOS_vsnprintf\|.*_VaParse.*\|.*_VaBuild.*\|PyBuffer_SizeFromFormat\|vasprintf\|vfprintf\|vprintf\|vsprintf \
  -t org.python \
  /usr/include/python2.7/Python.h \
  -o org.python.jmod

Jlinking python module to create a JDK with Python in it

jdk.compiler and org.python modules are added to the generated (jlinked) JDK


jlink --add-modules org.python,jdk.compiler --module-path . --output pythonjdk

Compile and run user code with "pythonjdk" jdk

In the following commands, it is assumed that you've put $pythonjdk/bin in your $PATH


javac PythonMain.java
java PythonMain

Embedding Python interpreter in your Java program (Ubuntu 16.04)

jextract a Jar file for Python.h


jextract -l python2.7 \
  -L /usr/lib/python2.7/config-x86_64-linux-gnu --record-library-path \
  --exclude-symbols .*_FromFormatV\|_.*\|PyOS_vsnprintf\|.*_VaParse.*\|.*_VaBuild.*\|PyBuffer_SizeFromFormat\|vasprintf\|vfprintf\|vprintf\|vsprintf \
  -t org.python \
  /usr/include/python2.7/Python.h \
  -o python.jar

Compiling and Running Python Java example

Follow the instructions from the Mac OS section

Embedding Python interpreter in your Java program (Windows)

jextract a Jar file for Python.h

Where python 2.7 is installed in the C:\Python27 directory:

jextract -L "C:\Windows\System32" -l python27 -o python.jar -t "org.python" --record-library-path C:\Python27\include\Python.h

Compiling and Running Python Java example

javac -cp python.jar PythonMain.java
java -cp "python.jar;." PythonMain

Using sqlite3 library in your Java program (Mac OS)

jextract a jar file for sqlite3.h


jextract  /usr/include/sqlite3.h -t org.sqlite -lsqlite3 \
    -L /usr/lib --record-library-path         \
    --exclude-symbols sqlite3_vmprintf        \
    --exclude-symbols sqlite3_vsnprintf       \
    -o sqlite3.jar

Java sample that uses sqlite3 library


import java.lang.invoke.*;
import java.foreign.*;
import java.foreign.memory.*;
import org.sqlite.sqlite3.*;
import static org.sqlite.sqlite3_h.*;

public class SqliteMain {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        try (Scope scope = scope().fork()) {
            // char* errMsg;
            Pointer<Pointer<Byte>> errMsg = scope.allocate(NativeTypes.INT8.pointer());

            // sqlite3* db;
            Pointer<Pointer<sqlite3>> db = scope.allocate(LayoutType.ofStruct(sqlite3.class).pointer());

            int rc = sqlite3_open(scope.allocateCString("employee.db"), db);
            if (rc != 0) {
                System.err.println("sqlite3_open failed: " + rc);
                return;
            }

            // create a new table
            Pointer<Byte> sql = scope.allocateCString(
                "CREATE TABLE EMPLOYEE ("  +
                "  ID INT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,"       +
                "  NAME TEXT NOT NULL,"    +
                "  SALARY REAL NOT NULL )"
            );

            rc = sqlite3_exec(db.get(), sql, Callback.ofNull(), Pointer.ofNull(), errMsg);

            if (rc != 0) {
                System.err.println("sqlite3_exec failed: " + rc);
                System.err.println("SQL error: " + Pointer.toString(errMsg.get()));
                sqlite3_free(errMsg.get());
            }

            // insert two rows
            sql = scope.allocateCString(
                "INSERT INTO EMPLOYEE (ID,NAME,SALARY) " +
                    "VALUES (134, 'Xyz', 200000.0); " +
                "INSERT INTO EMPLOYEE (ID,NAME,SALARY) " +
                    "VALUES (333, 'Abc', 100000.0);"
            );
            rc = sqlite3_exec(db.get(), sql, Callback.ofNull(), Pointer.ofNull(), errMsg);

            if (rc != 0) {
                System.err.println("sqlite3_exec failed: " + rc);
                System.err.println("SQL error: " + Pointer.toString(errMsg.get()));
                sqlite3_free(errMsg.get());
            }

            int[] rowNum = new int[1];
            // callback to print rows from SELECT query
            Callback<FI1> callback = scope.allocateCallback(FI1.class, (a, argc, argv, columnNames) -> {
                System.out.println("Row num: " + rowNum[0]++);
                System.out.println("numColumns = " + argc);
                for (int i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
                     String name = Pointer.toString(columnNames.offset(i).get());
                     String value = Pointer.toString(argv.offset(i).get());
                     System.out.printf("%s = %s\n", name, value);
                }
                return 0;
            });

            // select query
            sql = scope.allocateCString("SELECT * FROM EMPLOYEE");
            rc = sqlite3_exec(db.get(), sql, callback, Pointer.ofNull(), errMsg);

            if (rc != 0) {
                System.err.println("sqlite3_exec failed: " + rc);
                System.err.println("SQL error: " + Pointer.toString(errMsg.get()));
                sqlite3_free(errMsg.get());
            }
 
            sqlite3_close(db.get());
        }
   }
}

Compiling and Running sqlite Java example


javac -cp sqlite3.jar SqlMain.java
java -cp sqlite3.jar:. SqlMain

Using sqlite3 library in your Java program (Ubuntu 16.04)

Installing sqlite3

On Ubuntu (16.04) to install sqlite3 headers and libraries the following command is required:

sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev

This should install the sqlite3 header (under /usr/include), as well as the sqlite3 shared library (under /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu).

jextract a jar file for sqlite3.h

To extract sqlite, run the following command:

jextract  /usr/include/sqlite3.h -t org.sqlite -lsqlite3 \
          -L /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --record-library-path \
           --exclude-symbols sqlite3_vmprintf \
           --exclude-symbols sqlite3_vsnprintf \
           -o sqlite3.jar

Compiling and Running sqlite Java example

Please refer to the Mac OS instructions; once the library as been extracted (as per the instructions above), the sample program shown in that section should work on Ubuntu as well.

Using BLAS library

BLAS is a popular library that allows fast matrix and vector computation: http://www.netlib.org/blas/.

Installing OpenBLAS (Mac OS)

On Mac, blas is available as part of the OpenBLAS library: https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/wiki

OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.

You can install openblas using HomeBrew


brew install openblas

It installs include and lib directories under /usr/local/opt/openblas

Installing OpenBLAS (Ubuntu 16.04)

On Ubuntu, blas is distributed as part of the atlas library: http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/.

You can install atlas using apt


sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev

This command will install include files under /usr/include/atlas and corresponding libraries under /usr/lib/atlas-dev.

jextracting cblas.h (MacOS)

The following command can be used to extract cblas.h on MacOs


jextract -C "-D FORCE_OPENBLAS_COMPLEX_STRUCT" \
  -L /usr/local/opt/openblas/lib -I /usr/local/opt/openblas \
  -l openblas -t blas --record-library-path /usr/local/opt/openblas/include/cblas.h \
  -o cblas.jar

The FORCE_OPENBLAS_COMPLEX_STRUCT define is needed because jextract does not yet handle C99 _Complex types. The rest of the options are standard ones.

jextracting cblas.h (Ubuntu 16.04)

The following command can be used to extract cblas.h on Ubuntu


jextract -L /usr/lib/atlas-base -I /usr/include/atlas/ \
   -l cblas -t blas --record-library-path \
   /usr/include/atlas/cblas.h -o cblas.jar

Java sample code that uses cblas library


import blas.cblas;

import static blas.cblas_h.*;
import static blas.cblas_h.CBLAS_ORDER.*;
import static blas.cblas_h.CBLAS_TRANSPOSE.*;

import java.foreign.NativeTypes;
import java.foreign.Scope;
import java.foreign.memory.Array;

public class TestBlas {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
       @cblas.CBLAS_ORDER int Layout;
       @cblas.CBLAS_TRANSPOSE int transa;

       double alpha, beta;
       int m, n, lda, incx, incy, i;

       Layout = CblasColMajor;
       transa = CblasNoTrans;

       m = 4; /* Size of Column ( the number of rows ) */
       n = 4; /* Size of Row ( the number of columns ) */
       lda = 4; /* Leading dimension of 5 * 4 matrix is 5 */
       incx = 1;
       incy = 1;
       alpha = 1;
       beta = 0;

       try (Scope sc = scope().fork()){
           Array<Double> a = sc.allocateArray(NativeTypes.DOUBLE, m * n);
           Array<Double> x = sc.allocateArray(NativeTypes.DOUBLE, n);
           Array<Double> y = sc.allocateArray(NativeTypes.DOUBLE, n);
           /* The elements of the first column */
           a.set(0, 1.0);
           a.set(1, 2.0);
           a.set(2, 3.0);
           a.set(3, 4.0);
           /* The elements of the second column */
           a.set(m, 1.0);
           a.set(m + 1, 1.0);
           a.set(m + 2, 1.0);
           a.set(m + 3, 1.0);
           /* The elements of the third column */
           a.set(m * 2, 3.0);
           a.set(m * 2 + 1, 4.0);
           a.set(m * 2 + 2, 5.0);
           a.set(m * 2 + 3, 6.0);
           /* The elements of the fourth column */
           a.set(m * 3, 5.0);
           a.set(m * 3 + 1, 6.0);
           a.set(m * 3 + 2, 7.0);
           a.set(m * 3 + 3, 8.0);
           /* The elemetns of x and y */
           x.set(0, 1.0);
           x.set(1, 2.0);
           x.set(2, 1.0);
           x.set(3, 1.0);
           y.set(0, 0.0);
           y.set(1, 0.0);
           y.set(2, 0.0);
           y.set(3, 0.0);

           cblas_dgemv(Layout, transa, m, n, alpha, a.elementPointer(), lda, x.elementPointer(), incx, beta,
                   y.elementPointer(), incy);
           /* Print y */
           for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
               System.out.print(String.format(" y%d = %f\n", i, y.get(i)));
       }
   }
}

Compiling and running the above cblas samples


javac -cp cblas.jar TestBlas.java

java -cp cblas.jar:. TestBlas

Using LAPACK library (Ubuntu)

On Ubuntu, the same steps used to install the blas (via atlas) library also install headers and libraries for the LAPACK library, a linear algebra computation library built on top of blas.

jextracting clapack.h (Ubuntu 16.04)

The following command can be used to extract the LAPACK header:


jextract -L /usr/lib/atlas-base/atlas -I /usr/include/atlas/ \
   -l lapack -t lapack --record-library-path /usr/include/atlas/clapack.h -o clapack.jar

Java sample code that uses LAPACK library

import java.foreign.NativeTypes;
import java.foreign.Scope;
import java.foreign.memory.Array;

import static lapack.clapack_h.*;
import static lapack.cblas_h.*;

public class TestLapack {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        /* Locals */
        try (Scope sc = lapack.clapack_h.scope().fork()) {
            Array<Double> A = sc.allocateArray(NativeTypes.DOUBLE, new double[]{
                    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 3, 5, 2, 4, 1, 4, 2, 5, 3
            });
            Array<Double> b = sc.allocateArray(NativeTypes.DOUBLE, new double[]{
                    -10, 12, 14, 16, 18, -3, 14, 12, 16, 16
            });
            int info, m, n, lda, ldb, nrhs;

            /* Initialization */
            m = 5;
            n = 3;
            nrhs = 2;
            lda = 5;
            ldb = 5;

            /* Print Entry Matrix */
            print_matrix_colmajor("Entry Matrix A", m, n, A, lda );
            /* Print Right Rand Side */
            print_matrix_colmajor("Right Hand Side b", n, nrhs, b, ldb );
            System.out.println();

            /* Executable statements */
            //            printf( "LAPACKE_dgels (col-major, high-level) Example Program Results\n" );
            /* Solve least squares problem*/
            info = clapack_dgels(CblasColMajor, CblasNoTrans, m, n, nrhs, A.elementPointer(), lda, b.elementPointer(), ldb);

            /* Print Solution */
            print_matrix_colmajor("Solution", n, nrhs, b, ldb );
            System.out.println();
            System.exit(info);
        }
    }

    static void print_matrix_colmajor(String msg, int m, int n, Array<Double> mat, int ldm) {
        int i, j;
        System.out.printf("\n %s\n", msg);

        for( i = 0; i < m; i++ ) {
            for( j = 0; j < n; j++ ) System.out.printf(" %6.2f", mat.get(i+j*ldm));
            System.out.printf( "\n" );
        }
    }
}

Compiling and running the above LAPACK sample


javac -cp clapack.jar TestLapack.java

java -cp clapack.jar:. TestLapack

Using LAPACK library (Mac OS)

On Mac OS, lapack is installed under /usr/local/opt/lapack directory.

jextracting lapacke.h


jextract -L /usr/local/opt/lapack/lib -I /usr/local/opt/lapack/ \
  -l lapacke -t lapack --record-library-path /usr/local/opt/lapack/include/lapacke.h -o clapack.jar

Java sample code that uses LAPACK library


import java.foreign.NativeTypes;
import java.foreign.Scope;
import java.foreign.memory.Array;

import static lapack.lapacke_h.*;

public class TestLapack {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        /* Locals */
        try (Scope sc = scope().fork()) {
            Array<Double> A = sc.allocateArray(NativeTypes.DOUBLE, new double[]{
                    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 3, 5, 2, 4, 1, 4, 2, 5, 3
            });
            Array<Double> b = sc.allocateArray(NativeTypes.DOUBLE, new double[]{
                    -10, 12, 14, 16, 18, -3, 14, 12, 16, 16
            });
            int info, m, n, lda, ldb, nrhs;

            /* Initialization */
            m = 5;
            n = 3;
            nrhs = 2;
            lda = 5;
            ldb = 5;

            /* Print Entry Matrix */
            print_matrix_colmajor("Entry Matrix A", m, n, A, lda );
            /* Print Right Rand Side */
            print_matrix_colmajor("Right Hand Side b", n, nrhs, b, ldb );
            System.out.println();

            /* Executable statements */
            //            printf( "LAPACKE_dgels (col-major, high-level) Example Program Results\n" );
            /* Solve least squares problem*/
            info = LAPACKE_dgels(LAPACK_COL_MAJOR, (byte)'N', m, n, nrhs, A.elementPointer(), lda, b.elementPointer(), ldb);

            /* Print Solution */
            print_matrix_colmajor("Solution", n, nrhs, b, ldb );
            System.out.println();
            System.exit(info);
        }
    }

    static void print_matrix_colmajor(String msg, int m, int n, Array<Double> mat, int ldm) {
        int i, j;
        System.out.printf("\n %s\n", msg);

        for( i = 0; i < m; i++ ) {
            for( j = 0; j < n; j++ ) System.out.printf(" %6.2f", mat.get(i+j*ldm));
            System.out.printf( "\n" );
        }
    }
}

Compiling and running the above LAPACK sample


javac -cp clapack.jar TestLapack.java

java -cp clapack.jar:. TestLapack

Using libproc library to list processes from Java (Mac OS)

jextract a jar file for libproc.h

jextract -t org.unix -lproc -L /usr/lib --record-library-path -o libproc.jar /usr/include/libproc.h

Java program that uses libproc to list processes


import java.foreign.*;
import java.foreign.memory.*;
import static org.unix.libproc_h.*;

public class LibprocMain {
    private static final int NAME_BUF_MAX = 256;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Scope for native allocations
        try (Scope s = scope().fork()) {
            // get the number of processes
            int numPids = proc_listallpids(Pointer.ofNull(), 0);
            // allocate an array
            Array<Integer> pids = s.allocateArray(NativeTypes.INT32, numPids);
            // list all the pids into the native array
            proc_listallpids(pids.elementPointer(), numPids);
            // convert native array to java array
            int[] jpids = pids.toArray(num -> new int[num]);
            // buffer for process name
            Pointer<Byte> nameBuf = s.allocate(NativeTypes.INT8, NAME_BUF_MAX);
            for (int i = 0; i < jpids.length; i++) {
                int pid = jpids[i];
                // get the process name
                proc_name(pid, nameBuf, NAME_BUF_MAX);
                String procName = Pointer.toString(nameBuf);
                // print pid and process name
                System.out.printf("%d %s\n", pid, procName);
            }
        }
    }
}

Running the Java code that uses libproc


javac -cp libproc.jar LibprocMain.java

java -cp libproc.jar:. LibprocMain

Using readline library from Java code (Mac OS)

jextract a jar file for readline.h


jextract -l readline -L /usr/local/opt/readline/lib/ --record-library-path \
    -t org.unix \
    /usr/include/readline/readline.h \
    --exclude-symbol readline_echoing_p -o readline.jar

Java code that uses readline


import java.foreign.*;
import java.foreign.memory.*;
import static org.unix.readline_h.*;

public class Readline {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Scope for native allocations
        try (Scope s = scope().fork()) {
            // allocate C memory initialized with Java string content
            var pstr = s.allocateCString("name? ");

            // call "readline" API
            var p = readline(pstr);

            // print char* as is
            System.out.println(p);
            // convert char* ptr from readline as Java String & print it
            System.out.println(Pointer.toString(p));
        }
    }
}

Running the java code that uses readline


javac -cp readline.jar Readline.java

java -cp readline.jar:. Readline

Using libcurl from Java (Mac OS)

jextract a jar for curl.h


jextract -t org.unix -L /usr/lib -lcurl --record-library-path /usr/include/curl/curl.h -o curl.jar

Java code that uses libcurl


import java.lang.invoke.*;
import java.foreign.*;
import java.foreign.memory.*;
import org.unix.curl.*;
import org.unix.curl_h;
import static org.unix.curl_h.*;
import static org.unix.easy_h.*;

public class CurlMain {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
       try (Scope s = curl_h.scope().fork()) { 
           curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT);
           Pointer<Void> curl = curl_easy_init();
           if(!curl.isNull()) {
               Pointer<Byte> url = s.allocateCString(args[0]);
               curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
               int res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
               if (res != CURLE_OK) {
                   curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
               }
           }
           curl_global_cleanup();
       }
    }
}

Running the java code that uses libcurl


javac -cp curl.jar CurlMain.java
java -cp curl.jar:. CurlMain <url>

Using unistd.h from Java code (Linux)

jextract a jar file for unistd.h


jextract /usr/include/unistd.h -t org.unix -o unistd.jar

Java code that calls getpid


import java.foreign.*;
import java.lang.invoke.*;
import org.unix.unistd;


public class Getpid {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // bind unistd interface
        var u = Libraries.bind(MethodHandles.lookup(), unistd.class);
        // call getpid from the unistd.h
        System.out.println(u.getpid());
        // check process id from Java API!
        System.out.println(ProcessHandle.current().pid());
    }
}

Running the Java code that uses getpid


javac -cp unistd.jar Getpid.java

java -cp unistd.jar:. Getpid

Using OpenGL graphic library (Ubuntu 16.04)

OpenGL is a popular portable graphic library: https://www.opengl.org/

Installing OpenGL (Ubuntu 16.04)

Installing relevant OpenGL headers and libraries can be a bit tricky, as it depends on what graphic card is installed on the target platform. The following instruction assume that the standard version of OpenGL is used (e.g. mesa), rather than a proprietary one (Nvidia or AMD), although the changes to get these working are rather small.

OpenGL is always coupled with a bunch of other libraries, namely GLU and glut. You can install all those libraries using apt, as follows:


sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev

If the installation was successful, OpenGL headers can be found under /usr/include/GL, while libraries can be found in the folder /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/.

jextracting OpenGL (Ubuntu 16.04)

To extract the opengl libraries the following command suffices:


jextract -L /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu  -l glut -l GLU -l GL --record-library-path -t opengl -o opengl.jar /usr/include/GL/glut.h

Since glut depends on the other libraries (GLU and GL), it is not necessary to give additional headers to jextract.

Java sample code that uses the OpenGL library

import java.foreign.NativeTypes;
import java.foreign.Scope;
import java.foreign.memory.Array;
import java.foreign.memory.Pointer;

import static opengl.gl_h.*;
import static opengl.freeglut_std_h.*;

public class Teapot {

    float rot = 0;

    Teapot(Scope sc) {
        // Misc Parameters
        Array<Float> pos = sc.allocateArray(NativeTypes.FLOAT, new float[] {0.0f, 15.0f, -15.0f, 0});
        Array<Float> spec = sc.allocateArray(NativeTypes.FLOAT, new float[] {1, 1, 1, 0});
        Array<Float> shini = sc.allocateArray(NativeTypes.FLOAT, new float[] {113});

        // Reset Background
        glClearColor(0, 0, 0, 0);

        // Setup Lighting
        glShadeModel(GL_SMOOTH);
        glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_POSITION, pos.elementPointer());
        glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_AMBIENT, spec.elementPointer());
        glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_DIFFUSE, spec.elementPointer());
        glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_SPECULAR, spec.elementPointer());
        glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT, GL_SHININESS, shini.elementPointer());
        glEnable(GL_LIGHTING);
        glEnable(GL_LIGHT0);
        glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
    }

    void display() {
        glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
        glPushMatrix();
        glRotatef(-20, 1, 1, 0);
        glRotatef(rot, 0, 1, 0);
        glutSolidTeapot(0.5);
        glPopMatrix();
        glutSwapBuffers();
    }

    void onIdle() {
        rot += 0.1;
        glutPostRedisplay();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try (Scope sc = opengl.gl_h.scope().fork()) {
            Pointer<Integer> argc = sc.allocate(NativeTypes.INT32);
            argc.set(0);
            glutInit(argc, Pointer.ofNull());
            glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_DOUBLE | GLUT_RGBA | GLUT_DEPTH);
            glutInitWindowSize(900, 900);
            glutCreateWindow(sc.allocateCString("Hello Panama!"));
            Teapot teapot = new Teapot(sc);
            glutDisplayFunc(sc.allocateCallback(teapot::display));
            glutIdleFunc(sc.allocateCallback(teapot::onIdle));
            glutMainLoop();
        }
    }
}

Running the Java code that uses OpenGL (Ubuntu 16.04)


javac -cp opengl.jar Teapot.java

java -cp opengl.jar:. Teapot

Using OpenGL graphic library (Windows)

Installing OpenGL

Download the freeglut package for MSVC at https://www.transmissionzero.co.uk/software/freeglut-devel/

Extract the freeglut zip.

jextracting OpenGL

Navigate to the root directory of the extracted zip and run the following commands:

$inc = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.17134.0"
jextract -L C:\Windows\System32\ -L .\freeglut\bin\x64\ -l opengl32 -l freeglut -t opengl -o opengl.jar --package-map "$inc\um\gl=opengl" --record-library-path .\freeglut\include\GL\glut.h

The directory that is assigned to $inc is an example, and is system dependent. Make sure that the build number at the end of the path (in this case 10.0.17134.0) is the latest one found in the parent folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\).

There are a bunch of warnings generated, but as long as the jar file is generated in the working directory the extraction was successful.

Java sample code that uses the OpenGL library

This is the same as in the Ubuntu section

Running the Java code that uses OpenGL

javac -cp .\opengl.jar Teapot.java
java -cp "opengl.jar;." Teapot

Using TensorFlow C API (Mac OS)

Quoted from https://www.tensorflow.org/install/lang_c

"TensorFlow provides a C API that can be used to build bindings for other languages. The API is defined in c_api.h and designed for simplicity and uniformity rather than convenience."

Installing libtensorflow

You can follow the setup procedure as described in the above page.

Alternatively, on Mac, you can install libtensorflow using HomeBrew


brew install libtensorflow

Tensorflow ship the libtensorflow with an .so extension, this doesn't work well for java on MacOS as java expect .dylib extension. To work around this, create a symbolic link.


sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libtensorflow.so /usr/local/lib/libtensorflow.dylib

jextracting libtensorflow c_api.h

The following command can be used to extract c_api.h.


jextract -C -x -C c++  \
        -L /usr/local/lib -l tensorflow --record-library-path \
        -o tf.jar -t org.tensorflow.panama \
        /usr/local/include/tensorflow/c/c_api.h

The caveat to extract tensorflow C API is that it declare function prototype without argument in C++ style, for example, TF_Version(), which is considered incomplete C function prototype instead of C style as in TF_Version(void). An incomplete function prototype will become vararg funciton. To avoid that, we need to pass clang '-x c++' options to jextract with '-C -x -C c++'

Java sample code that uses tensorflow library


import java.foreign.NativeTypes;
import java.foreign.Scope;
import java.foreign.memory.Array;
import java.foreign.memory.LayoutType;
import java.foreign.memory.Pointer;
import org.tensorflow.panama.c_api.TF_DataType;
import org.tensorflow.panama.c_api.TF_Graph;
import org.tensorflow.panama.c_api.TF_Operation;
import org.tensorflow.panama.c_api.TF_OperationDescription;
import org.tensorflow.panama.c_api.TF_Output;
import org.tensorflow.panama.c_api.TF_Session;
import org.tensorflow.panama.c_api.TF_SessionOptions;
import org.tensorflow.panama.c_api.TF_Status;
import org.tensorflow.panama.c_api.TF_Tensor;

import static org.tensorflow.panama.c_api_h.*;
import static org.tensorflow.panama.c_api_h.TF_DataType.*;

public class TensorFlowExample {
    static Pointer<TF_Operation> PlaceHolder(Pointer<TF_Graph> graph, Pointer<TF_Status> status,
                                      @TF_DataType int dtype, String name) {
        try (var s = scope().fork()) {
            Pointer<TF_OperationDescription> desc = TF_NewOperation(graph,
                    s.allocateCString("Placeholder"), s.allocateCString(name));
            TF_SetAttrType(desc, s.allocateCString("dtype"), TF_FLOAT);
            return TF_FinishOperation(desc, status);
        }
    }

    static Pointer<TF_Operation> ConstValue(Pointer<TF_Graph> graph, Pointer<TF_Status> status,
                                Pointer<TF_Tensor> tensor, String name) {
        try (var s = scope().fork()) {
            Pointer<TF_OperationDescription> desc = TF_NewOperation(graph,
                    s.allocateCString("Const"), s.allocateCString(name));
            TF_SetAttrTensor(desc, s.allocateCString("value"), tensor, status);
            TF_SetAttrType(desc, s.allocateCString("dtype"), TF_TensorType(tensor));
            return TF_FinishOperation(desc, status);
        }
    }

    static Pointer<TF_Operation> Add(Pointer<TF_Graph> graph, Pointer<TF_Status> status,
                              Pointer<TF_Operation> one, Pointer<TF_Operation> two,
                              String name) {
        try (var s = scope().fork()) {
            Pointer<TF_OperationDescription> desc = TF_NewOperation(graph,
                    s.allocateCString("AddN"), s.allocateCString(name));
            Array<TF_Output> add_inputs = s.allocateArray(
                    LayoutType.ofStruct(TF_Output.class),2);
            add_inputs.get(0).oper$set(one);
            add_inputs.get(0).index$set(0);
            add_inputs.get(1).oper$set(two);
            add_inputs.get(1).index$set(0);
            TF_AddInputList(desc, add_inputs.elementPointer(), 2);
            return TF_FinishOperation(desc, status);
        }
    }

    public static void main(String... args) {
        System.out.println("TensorFlow C library version: " + Pointer.toString(TF_Version()));

        Pointer<TF_Graph> graph = TF_NewGraph();
        Pointer<TF_SessionOptions> options = TF_NewSessionOptions();
        Pointer<TF_Status> status = TF_NewStatus();
        Pointer<TF_Session> session = TF_NewSession(graph, options, status);

        float in_val_one = 4.0f;
        float const_two = 2.0f;

        Pointer<TF_Tensor> tensor_in = TF_AllocateTensor(TF_FLOAT, Pointer.ofNull(), 0, Float.BYTES);
        TF_TensorData(tensor_in).cast(NativeTypes.FLOAT).set(in_val_one);
        Pointer<TF_Tensor> tensor_const_two = TF_AllocateTensor(TF_FLOAT, Pointer.ofNull(), 0, Float.BYTES);
        TF_TensorData(tensor_const_two).cast(NativeTypes.FLOAT).set(const_two);

        // Operations
        Pointer<TF_Operation> feed = PlaceHolder(graph, status, TF_FLOAT, "feed");
        Pointer<TF_Operation> two = ConstValue(graph, status, tensor_const_two, "const");
        Pointer<TF_Operation> add = Add(graph, status, feed, two, "add");


        try (var s = scope().fork()) {
            var ltPtrTensor = LayoutType.ofStruct(TF_Tensor.class).pointer();

            // Session Inputs
            TF_Output input_operations = s.allocateStruct(TF_Output.class);
            input_operations.oper$set(feed);
            input_operations.index$set(0);
            Pointer<Pointer<TF_Tensor>> input_tensors = s.allocate(ltPtrTensor);
            input_tensors.set(tensor_in);

            // Session Outputs
            TF_Output output_operations = s.allocateStruct(TF_Output.class);
            output_operations.oper$set(add);
            output_operations.index$set(0);
            Pointer<Pointer<TF_Tensor>> output_tensors = s.allocate(ltPtrTensor);
            TF_SessionRun(session, Pointer.ofNull(),
                // Inputs
                input_operations.ptr(), input_tensors, 1,
                // Outputs
                output_operations.ptr(), output_tensors, 1,
                // Target operations
                Pointer.ofNull(), 0, Pointer.ofNull(),
                status);

            System.out.println(String.format("Session Run Status: %d - %s",
                    TF_GetCode(status), Pointer.toString(TF_Message(status))));
            Pointer<TF_Tensor> tensor_out = output_tensors.get();
            System.out.println("Output Tensor Type: " + TF_TensorType(tensor_out));
            float outval = TF_TensorData(tensor_out).cast(NativeTypes.FLOAT).get();
            System.out.println("Output Tensor Value: " + outval);

            TF_CloseSession(session, status);
            TF_DeleteSession(session, status);

            TF_DeleteSessionOptions(options);

            TF_DeleteGraph(graph);

            TF_DeleteTensor(tensor_in);
            TF_DeleteTensor(tensor_out);
            TF_DeleteTensor(tensor_const_two);

            TF_DeleteStatus(status);
        }
    }
}

Compiling and running the above TensorFlow sample


javac -cp tf.jar TensorFlowExample.java

java -cp tf.jar:. TensorFlowExample

Using TensorFlow C API (Windows)

Installing libtensorflow

You can download a binary distribution from https://www.tensorflow.org/install/lang_c

Extract the zip file.

jextracting libtensorflow c_api.h

The problem outlined in the Mac OS instruction w.r.t. incorrect function prototypes still exists (though it has been solved in the Tensorflow github repository, this change has not yet made it into the binary distributions). On Windows there is however no jextract command that works around this, so the only way to extract the \include\c\c_api.h header successfully is to first manually fix the incorrect function prototypes:

TF_Version() -> TF_Version(void)  
TF_NewGraph() -> TF_NewGraph(void)  
TF_NewSessionOptions() -> TF_NewSessionOptions(void)  
TF_NewStatus() -> TF_NewStatus(void)
TF_NewBuffer() -> TF_NewBuffer(void)
TF_NewImportGraphDefOptions() -> TF_NewImportGraphDefOptions(void)
TF_GetAllOpList() -> TF_GetAllOpList(void)

Once you've done this you can use the following jextract command from the libtensorflow root directory:

jextract -L .\lib -l tensorflow -o tf.jar -t "org.tensorflow.panama" --record-library-path .\include\tensorflow\c\c_api.h

Java sample code that uses tensorflow library

This is the same as for the Mac OS section.

Compiling and running the above TensorFlow sample

javac -cp tf.jar TensorFlowExample.java
java -cp "tf.jar;." TensorFlowExample