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mungbean

creating standalone windows exe?
Apr 7^th, 2008, 4:58pm

hey guys

what's the current state of the art for creating a single, standalone windows .EXE file (for distribution) from a Processing sketch?

I've tried both Launch4J and Jsmooth and am having problems with both. Has anyone used these successfully, or some other tools for adding wrappers to JARs?

Also can someone point me to a statement of how licensing would work if core.jar gets bundled inside the .EXE.... does the resulting distribution have to be LGPL?

thanks

JohnG Ex Member	Re: creating standalone windows exe? Reply #1 - Apr 7^th, 2008, 5:32pm Do you mean so that the end user doesn't need to have java installed or not? Or so that it's just a single file that you need to distribute instead of a directory? I'm assuming that processing's built in "Export as Application" doesn't do what you want?

mungbean

Re: creating standalone windows exe?
Reply #2 - Apr 7^th, 2008, 6:06pm

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Or so that it's just a single file that you need to distribute instead of a directory?

yes. Solving the issue of the app running reliably regardless of what version of java is installed would be a useful side-effect though. (Launch4J is supposed to be able to do this, but I couldn't get it work.)

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I'm assuming that processing's built in "Export as Application" doesn't do what you want?

No it doesn't. "export as application" doesn't create a single file, it creates a stub (.exe) and a lib folder with 2 JARs in it: core.jar with P5 core and a second JAR with the rest of the code (same name as the sketch + .jar).

(On OSX this is a complete no-brainer, because everything is bundled together as an application package.)

liquid Junior Member Offline Posts: 72	Re: creating standalone windows exe? Reply #3 - Apr 8^th, 2008, 3:41am using exe4j or j2ewiz

mungbean

Re: creating standalone windows exe?
Reply #4 - Apr 8^th, 2008, 4:46pm

liquid wrote on Apr 8^th, 2008, 3:41am:

using exe4j or j2ewiz

Excellent, I used the trial version of JAR2EXE (seems to be new name for j2ewiz) and that worked fine.

http://www.regexlab.com/en/jar2exe/

I put my own icon in, which shows up on the EXE but when it runs it reverts to the java coffee-cup, but I can live with that for now.

Thanks for the tip, liquid!

JohnG Ex Member	Re: creating standalone windows exe? Reply #5 - Apr 8^th, 2008, 4:53pm I think you need http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/Frame.html#setIconImage(java.awt.Image) to set the little icon in the title bar.

FrankBerg Ex Member	Re: creating standalone windows exe? Reply #6 - Apr 8^th, 2008, 5:52pm check out some of these projects on SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&type_of_search=soft&words=jar+to+exe fb

mungbean

Re: creating standalone windows exe?
Reply #7 - Apr 8^th, 2008, 6:36pm

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I think you need http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/Frame.html#setIconImage(java.awt.Image) to set the little icon in the title bar.

Thanks John.

Searching for setIconImage brought up this page in the docs that I'd not managed to see before (why is it so hard to find stuff on that site?)... this includes sample code for setting both the icon and the title bar text:

http://www.processing.org/reference/environment/export.html

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