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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Copyright DataStax, Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Sanity-checks the libjvector.so that actually ships inside the built
+# jvector-native jar (not the loose copy in src/main/resources): correct
+# architecture, resolvable dynamic dependencies, and presence of the expected
+# exported symbols. Non-fatal (warns and skips) for any check whose tool isn't
+# available on the current OS (e.g. readelf/ldd on macOS).
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+MODULE_ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
+JAR="${1:-}"
+
+if [ -z "${JAR}" ]; then
+  JAR=$(find "${MODULE_ROOT}/target" -maxdepth 1 -name 'jvector-native-*.jar' \
+          ! -name '*-sources.jar' ! -name '*-javadoc.jar' | head -1)
+fi
+
+if [ -z "${JAR}" ] || [ ! -f "${JAR}" ]; then
+  echo "ERROR: no jvector-native-*.jar found under ${MODULE_ROOT}/target. Run 'mvn package' first." >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+LIBNAME="libjvector.so"
+WORKDIR=$(mktemp -d)
+trap 'rm -rf "${WORKDIR}"' EXIT
+
+if ! unzip -p "${JAR}" "${LIBNAME}" > "${WORKDIR}/${LIBNAME}" 2>/dev/null || [ ! -s "${WORKDIR}/${LIBNAME}" ]; then
+  echo "ERROR: ${LIBNAME} not found (or empty) inside ${JAR}." >&2
+  echo "       This is expected if ${JAR} was not built on a unix/amd64 host: the native" >&2
+  echo "       library is only compiled and packaged there (see unix-amd64-profile in" >&2
+  echo "       jvector-native/pom.xml). On e.g. Apple Silicon (arm64) Macs, the native" >&2
+  echo "       build is skipped entirely, so the jar never contains ${LIBNAME}." >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+LIB="${WORKDIR}/${LIBNAME}"
+FAIL=0
+
+printf '\n== %s (from %s) ==\n' "${LIBNAME}" "$(basename "${JAR}")"
+
+echo "-- file --"
+file "${LIB}"
+
+echo "-- architecture (readelf -h) --"
+if command -v readelf &>/dev/null; then
+  MACHINE_LINE=$(readelf -h "${LIB}" | grep -i 'Machine:')
+  echo "${MACHINE_LINE}"
+  if [[ "${MACHINE_LINE}" != *"X86-64"* ]]; then
+    echo "ERROR: expected an x86-64 shared object, got: ${MACHINE_LINE}" >&2
+    FAIL=1
+  fi
+else
+  echo "WARNING: readelf not available on this OS, skipping architecture check (rely on 'file' output above)." >&2
+fi
+
+echo "-- dynamic dependencies (ldd) --"
+if command -v ldd &>/dev/null; then
+  LDD_OUT=$(ldd "${LIB}" 2>&1 || true)
+  echo "${LDD_OUT}"
+  if echo "${LDD_OUT}" | grep -qi "not found"; then
+    echo "ERROR: unresolved shared library dependencies detected above." >&2
+    FAIL=1
+  fi
+else
+  echo "WARNING: ldd not available on this OS (e.g. macOS); use 'otool -L ${LIBNAME}' manually if needed." >&2
+fi
+
+# Note that an exhaustive check of exported symbols is not strictly necessary, because the
+# Java code will load but fail at runtime if any of the expected symbols are missing. But
+# this check is a useful sanity-check to catch any accidental changes to the native code that
+# would break the Java code, and to catch any accidental changes to the build process that
+# would result in a library that doesn't export the expected symbols.
+echo "-- exported symbols (nm) --"
+REQUIRED_SYMBOLS=(
+  jvector_simd_get_active_isa
+  jvector_simd_get_max_isa_env
+  dot_product_f32
+  cosine_f32
+  euclidean_f32
+)
+if command -v nm &>/dev/null; then
+  SYMBOLS=$(nm -D "${LIB}" 2>/dev/null || nm "${LIB}" 2>/dev/null || true)
+  for sym in "${REQUIRED_SYMBOLS[@]}"; do
+    # Mach-O (macOS) nm output underscore-prefixes C symbols; ELF (Linux) does not.
+    if echo "${SYMBOLS}" | grep -qE "[[:space:]]_?${sym}\$"; then
+      echo "  OK      ${sym}"
+    else
+      echo "  MISSING ${sym}" >&2
+      FAIL=1
+    fi
+  done
+else
+  echo "WARNING: nm not available, skipping exported-symbol check." >&2
+fi
+
+echo
+if [ "${FAIL}" -ne 0 ]; then
+  echo "libjvector.so verification FAILED" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "libjvector.so verification passed"