sbt-native-packager VS sbt-native-image

Compare sbt-native-packager vs sbt-native-image and see what are their differences.

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sbt-native-packager

Posts with mentions or reviews of sbt-native-packager. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-11.

sbt-native-image

Posts with mentions or reviews of sbt-native-image. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-13.
  • Scala.js AWS Lambda, using Scala 3
    6 projects | /r/scala | 13 Sep 2022
    Take a look at sbt-native-image or sbt-native-packager for building the native image.
  • GraalVM native-image with Scala 3 reflection hell
    3 projects | /r/scala | 9 Jan 2022
    The reason seems to be Scala 3's new encoding for lazy vals, where a reflective access to a variable called bitmap takes place. To demonstrate this, I took the http4s g8 template, set it up with Scala 3.1.0, added sbt native-image, started the nativeImageRunAgent and ran a single request against GET /joke. After stopping the server, the native-image run agent generated the reflective configs that are required for this path of execution. Comparing the generated Scala 2.13 with the Scala 3 configs, yields a bloated version for Scala 3 that contains these additional rules:
  • Is Scala and Play Framework dying?
    5 projects | /r/scala | 8 Dec 2021
    Sbt plugin: https://github.com/scalameta/sbt-native-image
  • Native Image Compilation for A Purely Functional Example Application
    2 projects | /r/scala | 15 Aug 2021
    IIRC, the sbt-native-image plugin can abstract that away, too: https://github.com/scalameta/sbt-native-image#nativeimagerunagent https://github.com/scalameta/sbt-native-image
  • SBT error when running package application: java.lang.RuntimeException: No main class detected.
    3 projects | /r/scala | 9 Jun 2021
    Assembly, however, has some disadvantages so you may also want to look into other alternatives like sbt-native-packager. You may even want to produce a binary using sbt-native-image (which uses GraalVM under the hood) so your users do not need to install anything at all, not even a JRE.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sbt-native-packager and sbt-native-image you can also consider the following projects:

sbt-assembly - Deploy über-JARs. Restart processes. (port of codahale/assembly-sbt)

Distribution - The Javascript ecosystem for Scala.js!

sbt-pack - A sbt plugin for creating distributable Scala packages.

sn-bindgen - Scala 3 native binding generator + libclang facade

coursier - Pure Scala Artifact Fetching

text-draw - A text console drawing application with few simple commands

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