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So, I made a program that is finished now, and I want to release it. Anyone willing to help me to export it as an installer/application (exe)?
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Have a linky: http://www.excelsior-usa.com/articles/java-to-exe.html
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It was a quite interesting article there!
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I don't think it's possible. The installer would just put the .jar file in C:/program files/name/file.jar, and create a desktop shortcut to that file?
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I already done it lol. I used launch4J
no, it puts the .jar inside the .exeOriginally Posted by jtwhite
Last edited by galaxyAbstractor; 10-04-2009 at 03:27 AM.
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Have you read that article? It's very interesting :p
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the no .exe was one of the problems I had with coding in JAVA, I might learn it for real now.
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AARGH
Does anyone even get the most important point of the article?
Why would you do such a thing? Java is designed to be portable to many platforms, making it into a Windows executable is usually a waste of time and loss of possibilities...
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imo, make one exe for stupid windows users and a jar for linux users. There are a lot of cons with .jar:
The only pro I can see with .jar is that it's cross-platform
- You need JRE already installed
- Windows users doesn't know what it is and suspects it's a virus
- easy to see the code, just unpack it with winrar
As you seen how I packed the archive in the image before, marshian, with the CMD command, I thought making an .exe wouldn't hurt as the app already was windows only. But now I'm going to do an exe and a jar.
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I give up.
Have fun, learn about Java some other time.
xav0989, if you want to build native applications try learning C++.
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