scala sbt assembly "no main manifest attribute"

hl1020 picture hl1020 · Jan 9, 2015 · Viewed 7.8k times · Source

I use assembly plugin in sbt to assemble my project. But errors happen when run by "java -jar xx.jar" -

"no main manifest attribute".

I think it's because there are two files in my src/main/scala/ directory and each with an object extending Application which means there are two main entry in the project. But I need two applications, one is the server and the other is the test client.

How to handle this two-main-entry problem in scala sbt. Thanks in advance.

Answer

sksamuel picture sksamuel · Jan 9, 2015

In your SBT build file, define the main class.

If you are using build.sbt, then that would be:

mainClass in assembly := Some("com.domain.Main")

If you are using Build.scala then you could do something like:

lazy val app = (project in file("app")).
  settings(assemblySettings: _*)
  settings(mainClass in assembly := Some("com.domain.Main"))