packr VS groovy

LibGDX has their own way of doing this: https://github.com/libgdx/packr

Go to https://github.com/libgdx/packr, download a release on the releases page.

> they quickly realize they need Windows, and a Mac, and maybe Linux just to make packages that their friends can run

And when they test it on Windows they'll realize that the launcher that jpackage creates does something weird on startup (involving relaunching itself it seems?) that makes Windows display a busy cursor for a while after the program has launched, so they have to forget about jpackage and redo it all with something like Packr [1] and Wix# [2]...

[1] https://github.com/libgdx/packr

[2] https://github.com/oleg-shilo/wixsharp

You may also want to bundle a JVM with your game install so you don't have to rely on the user having Java installed. You can use libGDX-packr or jpackage for this. If you have any trouble, feel free to hit me up.

Try packr: https://github.com/libgdx/packr

Then see if this could work for you: https://github.com/libgdx/packr

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2258932/embed-a-jre-in-a-windows-executable has some suggestions, one of which is https://github.com/libgdx/packr if you embed your Rust library within a JAR

If you are on a lower version I have made good experiences with the packr tool.

This time, I visited Groovy. Given my biased first impression about Java and the JVM, I wasn't too exited! But I couldn't have been more wrong! 😁

The default programming language is Kotlin instead of Java. Also, Build configuration language is nowadays Kotlin DSL (build.gradle.kts) instead of Groovy DSL (build.gradle), the past default.

There are languages that are more like "script versions of java", lately including java itself - you can run simple .java stuff directly with a shebang line now - but things like Beanshell of yore and Groovy are far more java-like than javascript.

Install Groovy: To use Groovy, you'll need to first install it. You can find the installation instructions on the Groovy website (https://groovy-lang.org/)

On https://groovy-lang.org a lot of big companies are listed which use(d) Groovy. Is this still current? E.g. Netflix, ...

Groovylang

Hence, Groovy

If you want the power of JAVA but the feel of PYTHON, try Groovy (https://groovy-lang.org/) . Basically a scripting lang for JVM but can be dynamically/statically compiled and is 100% compatible with all JAVA libs but looks like Python

Doesn't Groovy (https://groovy-lang.org) achieve much of this? I remember being taught with it at university for some time before they introduced Java. With Groovy you don't need the class or main method, and can have a program which is just `println "Hello world!"`.