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dgiagio / warp

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Create self-contained single binary applications

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Create self-contained single binary applications

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thangalin·Sep 14, 2024
The first four parts of my Typesetting Markdown blog describes improving the user-friendliness of bash scripts. In particular, you can use bash to define a reusable script that allows isolating software dependencies, command-line arguments, and parsing. https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/05/22/typesetting-markdow... In effect, create a list of dependencies and arguments: #!/usr/bin/env bash source $HOME/bin/build-template DEPENDENCIES=( "gradle,https://gradle.org" "warp-packer,https://github.com/Reisz/warp/releases" "linux-x64.warp-packer,https://github.com/dgiagio/warp/releases" "osslsigncode,https://www.winehq.org" ) ARGUMENTS+=( "a,arch,Target operating system architecture (amd64)" "o,os,Target operating system (linux, windows, macos)" "u,update,Java update version number
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(${ARG_JAVA_UPDATE})" "v,version,Full Java version (${ARG_JAVA_VERSION})" ) The build-template can then be reused to enhance other shell scripts. Note how by defining the command-line arguments as data you can provide a general solution to printing usage information: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/-/blob/main/scripts/... Further, the same command-line arguments list can be used to parse the options: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/-/blob/main/scripts/... If you want further generalization, it's possible to have the template parse the command-line arguments automatically for any particular script. Tweak the arguments list slightly by prefixing the name of the variable to assign to the option value provided on the CLI: ARGUMENTS+=( "ARG_JAVA_ARCH,a,arch,Target operating system architecture (amd64)" "ARG_JAVA_OS,o,os,Target operating system (linux, windows, macos)" "ARG_JAVA_UPDATE,u,update,Java update version number (${ARG_JAVA_UPDATE})" "ARG_JAVA_VERSION,v,version,Full Java version (${ARG_JAVA_VERSION})" ) If the command-line options require running different code, it is possible to accommodate that as well, in a reusable solution.
In Techniques I use to create a great user experience for shell scripts
thangalin·Dec 21, 2022
It'll help build cross-platform desktop applications. In theory, it'll streamline using GitHub Actions to produce platform-specific binaries, such as my FOSS Markdown editor KeenWrite[0], without having to have a copy of every target operating system. To my knowledge, cross-compiling "native" Linux and Windows binaries using Java requires duct tape, chewing gum, and warp-packer.[1][2] If there's another way to cross-compile a Java application into a standalone binary for multiple target platforms, do tell! GraalVM isn't a panacea. For example, GraalVM cannot compile Renjin[3], a pure Java R interpreter, which means switching from Renjin to FastR. Not trivial. Other sinkholes likely lurk that'll only reveal themselves when walking through the weeds. [0]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite [1]: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/06/29
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/write-once-build-an... [2]: https://github.com/dgiagio/warp [3]: https://github.com/bedatadriven/renjin/issues/564
In OpenJDK Proposes Project Galahad to Merge GraalVM Native Compilation
thangalin·Mar 3, 2022
"Java -- possible, but you'll need a startup script to just call java -jar some-tool.jar; (also not a good fit for short-lived tools, mainly due to startup times;)" Technologies to look at: * Warp Packer -- https://github.com/dgiagio/warp/ * Liberica Native Image Kit -- https://bell-sw.com/pages/liberica-native-image-kit/ Warp Packer bundles my JavaFX desktop application, KeenWrite, into single binary executable files: * https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/releases/download/2.... (Linux) * https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/releases/download/2.... (Windows) * https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/releases/download/2.... (JVM) The start-up time for the first launch of the .bin or .exe is slow because it unpacks to a user directory. Subsequent starts are fast enough, even when running from the command-line as a short-lived task.
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Here's the script that creates the self-contained executable files: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/installe... To create a release for all three files, I run a single shell script from a build machine: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/release.... I could probably generate a binary for MacOS, but not enough people have asked.
In Single binary executable packages
thangalin·Mar 3, 2022
My desktop text editor[1] is written using JavaFX and leans on Warp Packer[2] to create installer-free, multi-platform executable binaries (without jlink). A user contributed a new dark theme[3], which blends nicely with the desktop. The JavaFX-based WebView (an HTML rendering component) is lauded, but has no direct API to control the scroll position and is itself a memory hog. Scrolling must be handled through JavaScript, and that indirection is as unwieldy as you can probably imagine. FlyingSaucer is a workable alternative to WebView, but comes with numerous technical issues that rear themselves when embedding a Swing widget inside a JavaFX application---as I discovered during development. Were I to start from scratch, I would definitely seek out alternative cross-platform programming languages for desktop application development. The J
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avaFX event-based model is top-notch, but there are too many technical gremlins to make implementation a smooth ride. (Such as improper handling of Alt+Tab, which leaves focus on the menu bar when returning to the application[4].) [1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite [2]: https://github.com/dgiagio/warp [3]: https://i.ibb.co/QpqS0NS/screenshot.png [4]: https://stackoverflow.com/q/65765656/59087
In The decline and fall of Java on the desktop
adgasf·Jan 11, 2019
PureScript has a C++ back-end, which is an interesting prospect: https://github.com/andyarvanitis/purescript-native Our development process is very pleasant. We use VS Code, .NET Core and Ionide as an IDE. I find an IDE essential for languages with global type-inference. For bundling, we use Core RT to create a self-contained application. This is then bundled using Warp (https://github.com/dgiagio/warp) to generate a single binary. The script is here https://github.com/LoopPerfect/buckaroo/blob/866ae97ffc82ab8... The final binary size is quite reasonable: - Linux 66.1 mb - macOS 63.9 mb - Windows 35.4 mb I haven't investigated why Windows is so much smaller!
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