Hi, I'm searching for a way to package a Kotlin executable JAR built with Gradle to distribute it to...

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[CLOVIS]

Hi, I'm searching for a way to package a Kotlin executable JAR built with Gradle to distribute it to user. I managed to do it with shadowJar, but that means pushing multiple megabytes to CI/CD, when all the dependencies are already in maven repositories... It sounds like there should be a way to have the user automatically download all of those directly?

My ultimate aim is to have a small bash/shell script that I could distribute, that would download everything and run it with the correct classpath

[mbonnin]

I'd love to have an easy way to distribute executable jar files. The closest I have found is to distribute a .main.kts file that would download the depdendencies

[mbonnin]

It'll require users to have kotlin installed on their machine

[CLOVIS]

How do you do this? I've tried with kscript, but currently the dependency download is completely broken

[mbonnin]

Name a file something.main.kts and Kotlin 1.3.72+ can execute it

[mbonnin]

The dependency download is also broken but in different ways than kscript 🙈 so it might suit you better

[mbonnin]

I wrote this some time ago which is not too obsolete yet: https://medium.com/@mbonnin/may-2020-the-state-of-kotlin-scripting-99cb6cc57db1

[mbonnin]

long story short, kscript dependency download doesn't work on Java > 8. *.main.kts dependency resolution of transitive dependencies is limited (https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-38006) but working with Java > 8