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Integrating exe4j with your ant script (read about ant at
http://ant.apache.org)
is easy. Just use the exe4j task
that is provided in {exe4j installation directory}/bin/ant.jar
and set the projectfile parameter to the exe4j config
file that you want to build.
To make the exe4j task available to ant, you must first insert a taskdef element that tells ant where to find the task definition. Here is an example of using the task in an ant build file: <taskdef name="exe4j" classname="com.exe4j.Exe4JTask" classpath="C:\Program Files\exe4j\bin\ant.jar"/> <target name="launcher"> <exe4j projectfile="myapp.exe4j"/> </target> The taskdef definition must occur only once per ant-build file and can appear anywhere on the top level below the project element. Note: it is not possible to copy the ant.jar archive to the lib folder of your ant distribution. You have to reference a full installation of exe4j in the task definition. |
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The exe4j task supports the following parameters:
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To customize aspects of the exe4j build that cannot be overridden with
he above parameters, you can add appropriate tokens in the config file and use
the copy task with a nested filterset
element. For example, if the main class in
<java mainClass="com.mycorp.MyApp" ...should by dynamically adjusted by ant, just edit the line to <java mainClass="@MAIN_CLASS@" ...and copy the template config file (here myapp_template.exe4j) with <copy tofile="myapp.exe4j" file="myapp_template.exe4j"> <filterset> <filter token="MAIN_CLASS" value="com.mycorp.MyOtherApp" /> </filterset> </copy>before running the exe4j compiler as before. |