crawforddavid2006

Does anybody know how I can make one of my Java Programs into an executable? To be more specific I mean I want to make one of my Java Programs so I can run it just by double clicking on an icon.

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andro

Make a .jar file and you will be able to double-click it.

Mjordan2nd

Hope this helps

http://csdl.ics.hawaii.edu/~johnson/...jar-files.html

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JavaMan

For Mjordan2nd's tutorial, make sure when you type in Main-Class: psae.HelloWorld you press enter to make another line. I don't know why, but sometimes when you are creating a .jar it does not recognize the main class unless you leave a empty line below it.

grumpy

Doing it via a Jar file obvious requires having the Java VM installed.

If you want to go the whole hog, and build a native executable (which doesn't require a JVM to work), an alternative is the Java compiler in the gnu compiler collection, here. There are some limits, but it is a pretty fair alternative for a lot of use cases.