How to resolve this JNI error when trying to run LWJGL Hello World

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I m trying to run the sample  Hello World  from the LWJGL website  From this link  LWJGL  Getting Started   I m trying to do this via the command line  just so I understand the  behind the scenes  a bit better   I ve managed to compile without any errors  but when I try to run the program I m getting this error   C  JavaProjects LearningLWJGL gt java -classpath     lib   jar -Djava library path C  Windows System32 HelloWorld Error  A JNI error has occurred  please check your installation and try again Exception in thread  main  java lang NoClassDefFoundError  org lwjgl glfw GLFWKeyCallback     at java lang Class getDeclaredMethods0 Native Method      at java lang Class privateGetDeclaredMethods Unknown Source      at java lang Class privateGetMethodRecursive Unknown Source      at java lang Class getMethod0 Unknown Source      at java lang Class getMethod Unknown Source      at sun launcher LauncherHelper validateMainClass Unknown Source      at sun launcher LauncherHelper checkAndLoadMain Unknown Source  Caused by  java lang ClassNotFoundException  org lwjgl glfw GLFWKeyCallback     at java net URLClassLoader findClass Unknown Source      at java lang ClassLoader loadClass Unknown Source      at sun misc Launcher AppClassLoader loadClass Unknown Source      at java lang ClassLoader loadClass Unknown Source          7 more   Any ideas

User · Accepted Answer

A CLASSPATH entry is either a directory at the head of a package hierarchy of  class files  or a  jar file  If you re expecting   lib to include all the  jar files in that directory  it won t  You have to name them explicitly

User · Answer

I had same issue using different dependancy what helped me is to set scope to compile    lt dependency gt           lt groupId gt javax servlet lt  groupId gt           lt artifactId gt javax servlet-api lt  artifactId gt           lt version gt 3 0 1 lt  version gt           lt scope gt compile lt  scope gt       lt  dependency gt

[java] How to resolve this JNI error when trying to run LWJGL "Hello World"?

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