Issue
I'm working on deploying a standalone application with JavaFx and maven. Everything seems to work fine, but only on my computer. The launcher defined in the pom.xml file is a bash file. Is there any way to convert this file to executable or generate a *.exe using maven which will launch the application? Help, I'm beginner :) Here is my pom.xml file:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>org.example</groupId>
<artifactId>gowno</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.openjfx</groupId>
<artifactId>javafx-controls</artifactId>
<version>13</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.openjfx</groupId>
<artifactId>javafx-fxml</artifactId>
<version>13</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.8.0</version>
<configuration>
<release>11</release>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.openjfx</groupId>
<artifactId>javafx-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.0.3</version>
<configuration>
<mainClass>org.example.App</mainClass>
<launcher>launch.sh</launcher>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Solution
You can use Launch4J
. There is a maven plugin that you can use to generate .exe
file by running mvn package
:
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.akathist.maven.plugins.launch4j</groupId>
<artifactId>launch4j-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7.25</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>l4j-gui</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>launch4j</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<headerType>gui</headerType>
<outfile>${artifast.bin.dir}/${project.name}.exe</outfile>
<jar>${artifast.bin.dir}/${project.name}.jar</jar>
<errTitle>Error</errTitle>
<classPath>
<mainClass>com.mycompany.app.Gui</mainClass>
</classPath>
<jre>
<minVersion>1.8.0</minVersion>
</jre>
<versionInfo>
<fileVersion>1.2.3.4</fileVersion>
<txtFileVersion>txt file version?</txtFileVersion>
<fileDescription>a description</fileDescription>
<copyright>my copyright</copyright>
<productVersion>4.3.2.1</productVersion>
<txtProductVersion>txt product version</txtProductVersion>
<productName>PRODUCT NAME</productName>
<internalName>internal name</internalName>
<originalFilename>${project.name}.exe</originalFilename>
</versionInfo>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugins>
Note: Launch4j Configurations can be found here.
Answered By - Miss Chanandler Bong
Answer Checked By - Robin (JavaFixing Admin)