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I need to unload a DLL that was loaded with System.loadLibrary(..), anyone know if this is possible?

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I don't have any experience of this, but a bit of digging shows that the library should be unloaded when the classloader which loaded the library is garbage collected.

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    I just wasted 3 hours on this: The Java JNI DLL Unloading tutorial works, but **you cannot have a finalize() method in either your CustomClassLoader or your class that contains the native method!** I did not investigate why, but my guess is that it's related to the deprecation of finalize(). When removing the finalize from the example code everything works great! – mrexodia Mar 31 '20 at 14:18