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Arduino: Problems With librxtxSerial.jnilib

Recently the Arduino IDE installation refused to start on my Mac with the following exception:

uncaught exception in main method: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /Users/arun/arduino-0015/Arduio15.app/Contents/Resources/java/librxtxSerial.jnilib: no suitable image found. Did find: /Users/arun/arduino-0015/Arduino15.app/Contents/Resources/java/librxtxSerial.jnilib: no matching architecture in universal wrapper

Rather bizarre error and as far as I know, I hadn't mucked around with any settings. According to the Arduino forum it had something to with the Java version and suggested giving priority to Java 5 over Java 6. However this didn't work on my setup. Eventually I just downloaded the Java 6 compatible version of librxrxSerial.jnilib and replaced it in the package contents of the Arduino app. This fixed the problem.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Just fixed my environment that way. Thanks for that helpful post!

Martin
Anonymous said…
Thanks for your post, it work for me also. Save a lot of time !

Alexandre from St Martin.
Anonymous said…
love you! thanks for the tip
Anonymous said…
To fix this, click on the Arduino application (e.g. Arduino 16.app) in the Finder, and select Get Info from the File menu. In the info panel, click the Open in 32 Bit Mode checkbox. You should then be able to launch Arduino normally. (from the arduino faq's)
Anonymous said…
Many thanks!

That was my problem too.
friedbanana said…
32 bit fixed it for me. Thanks!
Donal Morrissey said…
Great, cheers for that!!

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