Deploying a Java game on Steam

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@princec

Indeed, don’t make life hard for yourself. Just deploy the entire embedded JRE you want, and use jsmooth to create a launcher for it.
On the Mac it’s just a zip of a .app folder with a shellscript to launch and a .plist file explaining to the system how the app is configured.
On Linux it’s just a tar.gz and a shellscript to launch.

All three methods just involve an entire JRE - the lib and bin folders specifically - and your game stuff at the root. There’s really nothing to it. Use Ant to automate it if you want but there’s not even really a need to do that.

Cas

Gonna check out jsmooth. I also found out that oracle has a maven dependency for a jre (might be interesting for the ppl who use maven):

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.oracle.java</groupId>
  <artifactId>jre</artifactId>
  <version>1.8.0_131</version>
</dependency>

However it is not supported anymore as far as I know. So there a serveral options right now:

• jlink (if needed with ModiTect plugin)
• launch4j
• jsmooth

Guess I’ll play a little bit around with all of them and see how it goes. Thanks again guys