Java application for building custom Windows executable launchers

[gouessej]

Hi

@Tryder

This will be a great new feature!

I can’t agree more

@Tryder

Everything is free of course

It’s free of charge, there is nothing (yet?) to pay but there is no source code (or I missed something, I’ve only found example.cs and a very few fxml scripts). InstallAnywhere had a free of charge version several years ago which suddenly disappeared, JarSplice has had some unfixed bugs for years, both are proprietary. If I don’t see your code, why should I trust you? Thanks for sharing anyway, I don’t want to discourage you.

@Tryder

In the mean time I created a Java application for building custom Windows executable launchers for any Java application, or Python and anything else for that matter. The application just compiles C# scripts into an executable with an optional embedded icon. It comes with a C# template for launching a batch file and you can download a C# template for launching jars that also checks for and downloads the appropriate JRE if necessary. It’s called CStExe and can be found here CStExe

I’ve made scripts that work with bundled Java too so feel free to message me if you’d like a copy. If you’re into making exe launchers you may also want to check out Guavacado on my site, I made it to create multi-resolution icons(.ico). Guavacado

It is already possible to create .ico files under any operating system supporting Java SE with Ant thanks to my contribution in Apache Commons Imaging:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMAGING-138

PackR and JNDT do something similar than your tool but both are open source and work under any operating system supporting Java SE, not only Windows, they don’t require Microsoft .NET, the former is under a permissive license. Writing a GUI above them is doable. Their installers don’t download any JRE, it’s intentional, they require the developer to provide a JRE (OpenJDK preferably or Oracle Java) but some links to ready-to-use JREs are provided in the documentation.

Good luck.