I have often built a single .jar file that will launch if you double-click it from a desktop or folder. I have even created a single file that works equally well on Windows, Mac and Linux.
The catch is, however, that you have to have Java already installed, and your desktop environment needs to associate .jar files with Java. For example, you can use the shade plugin to create an uber-jar this is launch-able. If you do not have Java already installed, you have to resort to creating a .exe file for use on Windows. In the good old days, you could always count on Java being installed on OS X. Cheers, Eric On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Curtis Rueden <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > > I want to build with Maven a Windows executable given the fact > > that I am able to produce an executable JAR. > > To my knowledge, it is not a cleanly solved problem. > > My team solved it by writing our own cross-platform launcher application in > C [1]. There are many technical details in the comments of the relevant > issue in our bug tracker [2]. We use maven-nar-plugin and > maven-assembly-plugin to enable Maven to compile, package and deploy it on > various platforms, with the help of Windows, OS X and Linux Jenkins nodes > [3, 4]. > > Horribly complicated, but it works. Maybe others know of a simpler > solution. > > Regards, > Curtis > > [1] https://github.com/imagej/imagej/tree/master/core/launcher > [2] http://trac.imagej.net/ticket/832 > [3] http://jenkins.imagej.net/job/ImageJ-launcher/ > [4] http://jenkins.imagej.net/job/ImageJ-launcher-deploy/ > > > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Jeff MAURY <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have the following request: > > I want to build with Maven a Windows executable given the fact that I am > > able to produce an executable JAR. > > I have seen the Codehaus appasembler Maven plugin but it seems it > produces > > several files where I want to produce a single .exe file. > > Do you know if such a plugin exists somewhere ? > > > > Thanks > > > > -- > > Jeff MAURY > > > > > > "Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually > > working and scaling. > > - Bjarne Stroustrup > > > > http://www.jeffmaury.com > > http://riadiscuss.jeffmaury.com > > http://www.twitter.com/jeffmaury > > >
