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# getting-started

[Dron Bhattacharya]

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/19/jpackage/packaging-overview.html#GUID-C1027043-587D-418D-8188-EF8F44A4C06A

Is this the standard way of packaging (creating installers for specific OS) for Kotlin applications?

[Goetz Markgraf]

I have never used jpackage before but it seems you can do that.

In the Java-World, you normally don’t create an exe-File but you deploy the result as a fat jar file and use a bat-File to start Java with the correct settings.

I know this is different from .NET and I personally would like to have a binary-creator more present, but that’s the way it is.

[Dron Bhattacharya]

thanks for sharing your knowledge. can you refer to any examples. It would be very helpful for me.

[Paul Griffith]

jpackage works great to distribute a “small” (for JVM) application bundle as an installer, but doesn’t create self-running executables directly
https://github.com/paul-griffith/kindling/blob/main/build.gradle.kts#L121
https://github.com/paul-griffith/kindling/blob/main/.github/workflows/release.yml

there’s also third parties tools to make distributing JVM applications easier, such as jdeploy: https://www.jdeploy.com/
or conveyor:
https://www.hydraulic.software/blog/1-hello.html