Take a look at Install Anywhere. The free version is
very powerful and will make executibles for a variety
of platforms.
Enjoy.
--Alex
--- George Birbilis <email@hidden> wrote:
> > On my Mac, I have xCode set to compile with 1.3
> and it creates a package
> > that
> > acts like an executable. This works fine on the
> Mac even though my
> > system
> > is updated to 1.4.2 . I want to take the
> compiled code and run it on a
> > Windows system. Questions are:
> >
> > Should I be able to create a .bat file that
> launches the .jar file?
> > If the Windows user has 1.4 or newer will my .jar
> file run as compiled for
> > 1.3?
> > Has anyone repackaged .jar files from xCode with
> jSmooth successfully?
> > Anyone have tricks or methods of doing this to
> share?
>
> Your user can double-click the .jar file and if they
> have a recent JVM
> installed it will run at the one the user installed
> later (usually that's
> the newest JVM, but not necesserily). Also there's a
> chance some
> archive-handling file will pick up the .jar file and
> open it to show its
> contents, though I don't know any such archiving
> program that will do it by
> default (in my system I usually set WinZip or
> similar to open .jar files -
> don't like them launched when double-clicked and
> prefer to see their
> contents instead [they are .zip files in fact])
>
> there are some solutions arround for making Java app
> launchers, not sure if
> there's some free one though. I also have a
> commercial solution to the
> problem of detecting and selecting JVMs at app
> startup plus loading your
> .jar/.zips from a folder and its subfolders with no
> fear about classpath and
> environment variables size (and extra plus is that
> then you have an .exe to
> launch your app, can set a custom name and icon for
> it etc.). If you feel
> the pricing is not too much (see
> http://order.kagi.com/?9WA [the
> WCLSPATH+RUNJAVA item]), then send me a private
> e-mail for more details on
> how it works...
>
> -----
> George Birbilis (email@hidden)
> Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
> MVP J# for 2004 & 2005
> http://www.kagi.com/birbilis
> --------------
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