being able to just produce an exe, no jvm required...
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Adam Brown
06/19/2021, 7:32 PMbeing able to just produce an exe, no jvm required, would be a very nice feature to have
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ephemient
06/19/2021, 7:38 PMjpackage already gives you something that runs without a separate jvm
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Adam Brown
06/19/2021, 7:39 PMya but, still, would be nice to have just a vanilla executable. no kludge
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ephemient
06/19/2021, 7:40 PMI don't think there's anything on a public roadmap but the compose plugin does work on mpp, so it's "just" a matter of writing all the platform-specific UI
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Adam Brown
06/19/2021, 7:40 PMgo has become my goto for little http projects b/c it can just build a small & totally self contained http server. it's so nice to just compile & run. zero extra steps
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ephemient
06/19/2021, 7:41 PMit's a single Gradle task to package everything up into a .exe or .app as well
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Adam Brown
06/19/2021, 7:41 PMk
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altavir
06/19/2021, 8:38 PMYou can use Graal native image for executable. Native compiler plugin was merged recently. But it still requires a lot of work.
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suresh
06/20/2021, 6:30 PM@altavir yeah it has improved a lot with the recent Gradle and maven plugins, but the swing/awt support is targeted only on linux now - https://www.graalvm.org/release-notes/21_0/#:~:text=added%20awt%20and%20swing%20support%20for%20the%20linux%20platform
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altavir
06/20/2021, 6:32 PMYep. This is why, I have not tried it myself.
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