Build Shaded Java (jar) into a Win32 executable with Embedded JRE?

Question

So far what I've tried is Launch4j which I did not have success making it work. Always getting java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:

Is there a way build a shaded Jar into a Win32 executable (console app) with embedded JRE with Maven. So user would not have to install Java?

Did you try using a plugin for Launch4j? E.g.: http://stackoverflow.com/a/18954002/2492865 or https://github.com/lukaszlenart/launch4j-maven-plugin — Anton Koscejev, Jun 02 '16 at 07:59

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 02 '16 at 15:00

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You may use maven-shaded-plugin in combination with launch4j-maven-plugin

here is good example of this

answered Jun 02 '16 at 15:00

Hisham Khalil

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 03 '16 at 01:47

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I managed to fix the maven-shade-plugin with launch4j-maven-plugin and made it working by making sure the target jar is the shaded jar:

<jar>target/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}-shaded.jar</jar>

answered Jun 03 '16 at 01:47

quarks

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