diff --git a/java_console/build.xml b/java_console/build.xml
index 14052b5ae9..42552e7152 100644
--- a/java_console/build.xml
+++ b/java_console/build.xml
@@ -93,13 +93,14 @@
     </target>
 
     <target name="test" depends="compile, copy_c_sources">
-        <junit fork="no"
+        <junit fork="yes"
                maxmemory="512m"
                printsummary="yes"
                haltonfailure="yes">
 
             <jvmarg value="-ea"/>
             <jvmarg value="-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError"/>
+            <sysproperty key="java.library.path" value="../unit_tests/build"/>
             <formatter type="brief"/>
             <classpath
                     path="build/classes:lib/junit.jar:${lib_list}:lib/commons-logging.jar"/>
@@ -144,7 +145,7 @@
         </copy>
     </target>
 
-    <target name="jar" depends="compile, copy_c_sources, autoupdate_jar">
+    <target name="jar" depends="compile, native_header, copy_c_sources, autoupdate_jar">
         <mkdir dir="build/jar"/>
         <delete file="${jar_file}"/>
         <echo message="Building ${jar_file}"/>