How can I run a main function with the gradle wrap...
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Casey Kulm
11/15/2018, 8:42 PMHow can I run a main function with the gradle wrapper?
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Casey Kulm
11/15/2018, 8:47 PMFound this http://www.gubatron.com/blog/2017/07/20/how-to-run-your-kotlin-gradle-built-app-from-the-command-line/ which seems to be working
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karelpeeters
11/15/2018, 9:11 PMSame as in Java simple smile
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igor.wojda
11/15/2018, 9:34 PMI wonder what would be practical use case for this?
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karelpeeters
11/15/2018, 9:35 PMJust running your program without having to start an IDE.
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gildor
11/16/2018, 1:15 AMArticle is correct, it’s just strange advice in section “What if I don’t want to use gradle, and just java”
Instead you can build “distribution” using application plugin, it will generate dir with run script and all required jars.
If you add also
shadowgildor
11/16/2018, 1:18 AMI wonder what would be practical use case for this?Any real application need a way to run it. And runnable jar is good way to achieve this, almost like binary, you just need
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