How to bundle a JRE with Launch4j?

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CodeBunny picture CodeBunny · Aug 15, 2011 · Viewed 78.3k times · Source

I have Launch4J on my computer and it's a great program. One of its features I'm interested in is the ability to bundle a JRE in the general .EXE file. However, I can't find any documentation that describes how to go about doing this.

How do I bundle a JRE with the EXE? Plus, where do I get a compact, portable JRE to run? The download links on Oracle are for the installer packages.

Answer

Francisco Puga picture Francisco Puga · Sep 28, 2011

After some attempts i finally get a workaround to bundle the jre in my application:

I package my app as a zip file with the following folders inside:

containerFolder
|- jre
      |-bin (in bin there is java.exe)
      |-lib
|- cfg (to save the user configuration, but it's not needed)
|- bin (my application with the .exe and the .jar and all the other stuff)

In the xml file of launch4j i configure the jre like this:

<jre>
    <path>../jre</path>
    <opt>-DgvSIG.confDir=../cfg</opt>
</jre>

The trick here is that the path is not to the java.exe file. The path to the jre is relative to the position of the .exe and it should point to one folder before the java.exe file

The jre folder i'm using is just a copy&paste from the jre folder installed on a windows system.

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