[ImageJ-devel] JavaFX packaging update

[Curtis Rueden]

Hi Wayne,

I just pushed some commits to the ImageJA repository [1] so that it can
also build the same platform-specific application bundles -- but for
vanilla ImageJ1 alone.

To install Maven on your OS X machine, I recommend using Homebrew [2]. Then
you can simply do:

    brew install maven

And you'll have a working mvn command.

Note that the application bundling feature requires Java 8, since it is
JavaFX-related functionality.

So the commands you need to build platform bundles for ImageJ 1.x are:

    git clone git://github.com/imagej/ImageJA
    cd ImageJA
    mvn -Pdist

And it should create them in the target/jfx/native folder. There should be
.dmg and a .pkg installers, which including a Java 8 runtime embedded (in
the ImageJ.app/Contents/PlugIns/Java.runtime folder internally). There
should also be an ImageJ.app in there. There is also a double-clickable
ImageJ.jar in the target/jfx/app folder (with empty lib/ folder since
ImageJ 1.x has no dependencies), as well another set of installers that do
_not_ include the JRE in the target/jfx/native-nojre folder.

Happy to help troubleshoot if you continue to have problems getting this
working.

Regards,
Curtis

P.S. You may notice one exception when building the ImageJA bundles,
relating to the version string not conforming to "x.y.z" pattern, but it
does not halt the build.

[1] https://github.com/imagej/ImageJA
[2] http://brew.sh

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Rasband, Wayne (NIH/NIMH) [E] <
rasbandw at mail.nih.gov> wrote:

>
> > On Jun 16, 2015, at 6:09 PM, Curtis Rueden <ctrueden at WISC.EDU> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > For those curious about the new JavaFX packaging for ImageJ, the
> relevant bits are now merged to master. So you can play with it if you like:
> >
> >   git clone git://github.com/imagej/imagej
> >   mvn -Pdist
> >
> > And you should get some platform-specific application bundles in
> target/jfx/app and target/jfx/native directories.
> >
> > Of course, the ImageJ Updater is still ignorant of the new directory
> structure (with core ImageJ stuff in the lib/ folder instead of jars/). And
> since the native launcher is no longer the ImageJ Launcher, many CLI flags
> do not work at the moment. But we will keep working on it!
>
> Hi Curtis,
>
> Is there an OS X application bundle that includes Java 8 available for
> download? I have not had any luck getting the the ‘mvn' command to work.
>
> -wayne
>
>
>
>
>
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