The Gluon Client plugin for sbt projects leverages GraalVM, OpenJDK and JavaFX 11+, by compiling into native code the Java Client application and all its required dependencies, so it can directly be executed as a native application on the target platform.
To use the plugin, apply the following steps:
Edit your project/plugins.bt file and add the plugin:
addSbtPlugin("com.github.gurinderu" % "sbt-gluon-plugin" % "0.1")
The plugin allows some options that can be set in configuration, to modify the default settings, and several goals, to build and run the native application.
Don't forget to set up graalPath parameter.
Once the project is ready, the Client plugin has these main goals:
This goal does the AOT compilation. It is a very intensive and lengthy task (several minutes, depending on your project and CPU), so it should be called only when the project is ready and runs fine on a VM.
Run:
sbt gluonBuild
The results will be available at ${TARGET_ARCH}/gvm.
At this moment the plugin is in beta, and supports Linux, Mac OS X and iOS platforms for now.
