I just spent a long time tracking this down, and nobody else on google had ever reported a solution. So I’m posting this so the next person wit h this problem can find this post.

If you see this error when linking something in JNI:

$ gcc -dynamiclib -o libDirectorySyncer.jnilib target/c/dsync.o -framework JavaVM
ld: framework not found JavaVM

it’s because leopard has messed up your JDK folder:

$ ls -l /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current@ -> 1.6.0

Wrong! It needs to be pointing to “A”. No idea why.

$ cd /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/
$ sudo rm Current
$ sudo ln -s A Current

That will fix it. Yay!

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