native-artifact-for-embedding

Producing a native shared library a JVM app can actually load and ship — why a prebuilt portable bundle usually is not a loadable library at all, building on the oldest base system you support, run-path choice, which libraries to deliberately leave out of the bundle, and gating the build on a load-and-initialize smoke test. Reach for it when the bundled native works on every developer machine and fails on a clean…