I have a a Javafx (fxml) application that I need to deploy as a jar file (using Intellij). However, this apparently cannot be done in later versions of Javafx. You need third party tools to create Javafx jars. The problem: I cannot seem to get any sources on-line that will list downloadable tools to create jars from Javafx apps. Any recommendations will be greatly appreciated!
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I finished writing a little tornadofx app in IntelliJ CE and now want to export it as a single file which can be downloaded and launched by users. For now it would be sufficient to provide a single jar file. But it would be also great to know on how to export a self contained installer for OSX, Windows and Linux. Unfortunately I don't know how to do any of that. Can you help?
Have a look at the FxLauncher project, which is also from the creator of tornadoFX. FXLauncher allows you to easily distribute your javafx/tornadoFX application. The project provides a maven-plugin which allows you to generate a self containing javafx/tornadoFX application that you then publish to a web-server or common directory (e.g an internal app in your company network). After that you can generate native installers for Linux, OSX and Windows. The installer itself will only install a small app, which will know the location of your web-serve or directory. On startup it will download the latest deployed version of you application and run it.
Additional links:
GitHub-project
Introduction screen cast
Customizing update ui
In case you want a single jar file, you can export it as a regular Java program (not the JavaFX option in IntelliJ). You do this by creating and building an artifact.
Go to the Project Structure window, and from there select Artifacts
Click the "+" icon to create a new artifact, and select JAR > From modules with dependencies...
Select the main class and press OK
And that's it, the artifact has been set up, now, to generate jar file, just go to Build > Build Artifacts menu, and select the newly-made artifact, and the IntelliJ will generate the jar file in the "out" directory.
Not sure if this is the best solution, but it's what I've been using, and it works for me.
I would like to deploy for the first time my first app made with PyQt5. I found pyqtdeploy (link) to be probably what I need to do this for Windows and other platforms.
Anyway, I am following this tutorial, but, as I am completely new to deploying applications, I am not sure on one thing: do I need to download Qt for the target specific platform I need to deploy my app to? If so, am I supposed to use qmake from that Qt installation against the result of pyqtdeploy? For example: if I want to deploy to Windows, do I have to download Qt from here (and which version???)?
From the same tutorial page, this is not so clear, maybe it's obvious, but as I am a newbie in this, not for me.
No you don't need to download Qt.
When building your 'sysroot.toml' file, pyqtdeploy will download qt-everywhere-src and builds it from source.
In the built sysroot directory you can find qmake executable in "...\Qt\bin" (qmake.exe) depends on where your project files (sysroot.toml file) are.
For example if your host machine is Windows and C:\Users\username\Desktop\My_PyQtDeploy_Proj is your project folder which contains sysroot.toml, after building sysroot you can find qmake in "C:\Users\username\Desktop\My_PyQtDeploy_Proj\sysroot-win-64\Qt\bin\qmake.exe"
how can i create a jar binary library project in android studio that can be used in other projects (meaning - an sdk)?
if it is possible, i want it to contain both java files and native cpp code (java files will start audio listening and cpp files for analysis).
there is no resources/layouts in the library.
if i add an android library module, its ouput is an aar file and not jar.
i read that eclipse does not support aar and so that is why i want it to be jar.
thanks a lot!
What you need to do is to put aside the Android "nature" of Android Studio and just write and build a normal Java/C++ project with Gradle. Your first stops will be Java quickstart and Native support documentation of Gradle.
In gradle find command "createFullJarDebug"
This command will generate jar file under build\intermediates\full_jar\debug\createFullJarDebug\full.jar
then you could use it.
I've got a Qt app that I need installed on a customers computer, which I can't assume has Qt installed on it. I'm on a Mac OSX and the computer I will be installing it on some Unix based system. I will be installing it myself so I don't need a GUI installation wizard or anything like that. Ideally I'd like to end up with a script or makefile, along with a folder of all the sources and necessary libraries, I just don't know where to start. References would be much appreciated, I haven't found anything useful after many google searches.
My question lies somewhere between these two:
Can you create a setup.exe in qt to install your app on a client computer?
Create Linux install for Qt application?
I don't need a full-blown install wizard (question 1), but I also won't have my machine at the installation site to just keep copying libraries until all dependencies are met (question 2). Basically I need to have everything on a CD ready to install when I get there. Thanks in advance.
There are two ways to install a Qt application on a system:
1 - You can compile Qt statically. This will allow you to deploy you app without any qt dependencies.
2 - You need to deploy your app with Qt librairy files you need (like qtcore.dll on Windows)
You will find all explications for each platform in the Qt documentation : http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/deployment.html.
To create installer you can use InstallJammer for Windows and Unix.
For MacOSX you need to create a dmg image. This is very simple. Read the following web page for help : http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-DMG-File-on-a-Mac. By using apple script you can customize dmg (like an Application folder link into the dmg).
My preference for Win32 installer is NSIS.
Hope that helps!
Not sure why you want to avoid the install wizard. It can also help you create Uninstaller, desktop and start menu shortcuts, etc. As mentioned in the posts you refer to, you could use BitRock InstallBuilder (Nokia uses it for Qt Creator)
If you do not want to use a wizard and don't want to compile statically, then you can bundle Qt libraries in the same folder as the app and setup a shell script that sets the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to that directory
Is there a quick, straightforward way to make a Qt application into an executable? I attempted to follow the instructions at http://doc.qt.digia.com/4.1/deployment-windows.html but have been unsuccesfull thus far; I'm unable to Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
I always use CMake to build Qt projects, it's easy, free and cross platform. Guide : Compiling Qt4 apps with CMake. CMake also come with CPack to easly make installer for Windows, Mac and Linux.
I agree with chmod700 about the Qt Creator suggestion, it's not my favorite IDE but it's still really nice and easy.
Do you mean an installer package? I assume you are able to compile, link, and run your app and you mean how do you package it up for others.
http://installbuilder.bitrock.com/ <-- special handling of Qt based projects but costs $
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php <-- my personal favorite and it's free (can be rough to learn advanced features though)
Though if you mean how do you build your app, you may want to try the new Qt Creator (http://www.qtsoftware.com/products/appdev/developer-tools/developer-tools#qt-tools-at-a) which will setup build targets for you and really makes desktop Qt dev a snap. Also if you're still using 4.1, you can now use 4.5 under the LGPL on all platforms making it almost a no-brainer to upgrade.
I'm not sure if I understand your problem. Assuming you're using MinGW, it's really easy and quite straightforward:
get the Qt sources and unpack them to some folder (f.e. c:\Qt\4.5.0-static)
install MinGW. Make sure the MinGW executable folder is in the %PATH% variable.
open a cmd windows, go to the Qt sources and run configure -static. You can add other config options if you like to, but usually you don't need that.
when building Qt finished, go to your application sources, open a cmd window and run the qmake of your built Qt installation -- i.e. c:\Qt\4.5.0-static\bin\qmake in the example given above.
run make
you get a statically linked binary in the end (you might want to check it with Dependency Walker).
Doing the same using Visual Studio is pretty similar.
Or do you want to build dynamically and create an installer package?