I’m coming up on being ready to deploy a project (audio-based, a drone tool I started years ago, has undergone many GUI and performance improvements).
I know I’ve seen advice and links here about how to include a JVM in the file. I even tried out one of the tools (‘jarsplice’) years ago. Summary of what I found via doing some searching here:
- references to JarSplice
- a positive reference to Excelsior (expensive!) by princec
- an article/tutorial thread started by theagentd http://www.java-gaming.org/topics/professional-looking-games-bundling-jres-and-making-native-executables/35990/msg/0/view/topicseen.html#new
- gouessej recommending JNDT
Also came across the following from Oracle:
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/deploy/self-contained-packaging.html
and javapackager
Was also checking around for anything Eclipse-based.
I’d appreciate hearing current suggestions for ways to distribute via itch.io that include the JVM.
Code makes use of Swing not JavaFX. Otherwise, nothing too fancy involved, just Java 8.
Before diving in too deep to these various articles, it seems like working with JarSplice will do the job. Do others agree? Seems like trying that should be my next step.
Thanks!