instructions?

[christf]

these instructions do not work.

How to use it
With signal-cli

The compiled library files (.so / .dylib / .dll) can be incorporated into signal-cli according to the [instructions on its wiki](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal).

For example, for signal-cli v0.13.7 on ARM64 Linux: download signal-cli-0.13.7.tar.gz from [signal-cli's releases](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/releases) and libsignal_jni.so-v0.58.0-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz from [this repo's releases](https://github.com/exquo/signal-libs-build/releases). Unpack downloaded files with tar -xzf ….tar.gz. Then replace the library file:

zip signal-cli-0.13.7/lib/libsignal-client-0.58.0.jar -d '*signal_jni*'
zip signal-cli-0.13.7/lib/libsignal-client-0.58.0.jar -uj libsignal_jni.so

downloads were done, extract was done,

 $ tar xzf /tmp/signal-cli-0.13.22-Linux-native.tar.gz 
 $ tar xaf /tmp/libsignal_jni.so-v0.86.5-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz 
 $ ls -ltrach
insgesamt 305M
drwxrwxr-x 6 christof christof 4,0K 22. Nov 02:13 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 christof christof 283M 22. Nov 02:16 signal-cli
drwxrwxr-x 2 christof christof 4,0K 22. Nov 02:17 .
-rwxr-xr-x 1 christof christof  23M 22. Nov 02:17 libsignal_jni.so
$ zip signal-cli-0.13.22/lib/libsignal-client-0.58.0.jar -d '*signal_jni*'
	zip warning: signal-cli-0.13.7/lib/libsignal-client-0.58.0.jar not found or empty
	zip warning: name not matched: *signal_jni*

zip error: Nothing to do! (signal-cli-0.13.7/lib/libsignal-client-0.58.0.jar)

after this I build libsignal-cli, in there is a libsignal-client jarfile. running the zip commands, I got:

$ zip libsignal-cli-0.13.23-SNAPSHOT.jar  -d '*signal_jni*'
	zip warning: name not matched: *signal_jni*

zip error: Nothing to do! (libsignal-cli-0.13.23-SNAPSHOT.jar)
$ zip libsignal-cli-0.13.23-SNAPSHOT.jar -ju libsignal_jni.so 
  adding: libsignal_jni.so (deflated 67%)


$ ./signal-cli  register
WARN  Manager - Failed to call libsignal-client: Can't load library: /tmp/libsignal17070887477168522540/libsignal_jni_amd64.so
Missing required native library dependency: libsignal-client

What then?

[exquo]

I understand this is quite late (sorry!), but in case someone else encounters an issue like this in the future.

It looks like you have downloaded the native file. For these instructions, you need the "standard" (Java) version of signal-cli (without -native in its name).