Is there any way to get executable file for Dart console project?

Question

Is there any way to compile my dart console project to executable file? Or maybe there are some utilities like launch4j for Java?

Answer 1

We don't really have all of the pieces together for that – yet.

I'd take a look through this issue: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/34343

I'll find the right person on the team to reply here with more details.

Answer 2

We can build Dart project to a native app via dart2native.

For example we have main.dart:

import 'package:ansicolor/ansicolor.dart';

main(List<String> arguments) {
  AnsiPen greenPen = AnsiPen()..green();
  AnsiPen greenBackGroundPen = AnsiPen()..green(bg: true);

  AnsiPen redTextBlueBackgroundPen = AnsiPen()..blue(bg: true)..red();

  AnsiPen boldPen = AnsiPen()..white(bold: true);

  AnsiPen someColorPen = AnsiPen()..rgb(r: .5, g: .2, b: .4);

  print(greenPen("Hulk") + " " + greenBackGroundPen("SMASH!!!"));
  print(redTextBlueBackgroundPen("Spider-Man!!!") + " " + boldPen("Far From Home!!!"));

  print(someColorPen("Chameleon"));

  print('\x1B[94m' + "hahAHaHA!!!" + '\x1B[0m');
}

And pubspec.yaml as

name: colored_text_test
description: A sample command-line application.

environment:
  sdk: '>=2.1.0 <3.0.0'

dependencies:
  ansicolor: ^1.0.2

dev_dependencies:
  test: ^1.0.0

We can use command dart2native.bat bin\main.dart and get main.exe as executable output.

Also we can specify name by using -o option: dart2native main.dart -o my_app

Answer 3

Yes, this capability was added in Dart 2.6.

In newer Dart versions, the dart2native tool was integrated into the dart binary. See the tutorial Write command-line apps on dart.dev for details.

Answer 4

Use dart compile for this.

dart compile exe path/to/main/script.dart