Running spring boot native application getting the following error

Question

While running a spring boot 3 native application on bellsoft-liberica-vm-core-openjdk17-22.3.0 I'm getting this following error after creating the image.

./target/blog: error while loading shared libraries: libfreetype.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

mvn -Pnative native:compile to create the image.

./target/blog to start the image.

Answer 1

Might be a bit late, but I recently faced the same problem (using Ubuntu 22.04).

apt-get install libfreetype-dev will install the required library.

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Or you might create a symlink to point to another installed version, as described here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/34257466

(libfreetype6 may already be installed, otherwise it may be via apt-get install libfreetype6).

1. find the location of the installed library:

$ dpkg -L libfreetype6
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6

2. create a symlink:

$ ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 ~/tmp/lib/libfreetype.so

3. provide the symlink when running the native-image:

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/tmp/lib ./build/native/nativeCompile/myAppNativeImage