JSmooth: a VM wrapper toolkit for Windows

Copyright (C) 2003-2007 Rodrigo Reyes <reyes@charabia.net>

JSmooth is a Java Executable Wrapper that builds standard Windows
executable binaries (.exe) that launch java applications. Such binaries
contain all the information needed to launch your java application,
i.e. the classpath, the java properties, the jvm version required, and
so on. If Java is not installed, it helps the users by displaying them a
notice before launching automatically a browser to a web site where they
can download a JVM.
1. Status of the project
JSmooth is currently in advanced beta phase.
2 Using the software
Double-clik on the JSmoothGen.exe icon.
3. Compiling the project
-- PREREQUISITE -The section below only applies if you need to build JSmooth from its
sources. If you just need to create an executable binary for your
application, just run JSmoothGen as it comes from its standard
distribution.
3.1 Get the source
You can get the source code at sourceforge's:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jsmooth
3.2 MINGW for Windows (required)
You need the MINGW GCC compiler to compile the Windows wrappers. Just
install the last version (3.1.0 or above) from the following website:
http://www.mingw.org/
You need to download the MINGW-v.exe package (where v is the
version). For instance MinGW-3.1.0-1.exe should be fine. You don't need
any other package, so don't be afraid of all the stuff available on
their web site.
Once installed, you still need to setup your %PATH% environment
variable to add the bin/ directory where MINGW is installed.
3.3 DOCUMENTATION STUFF (optional)
If you want to build the whole distribution package (including the
documentation, you need to install the docbook compilation chain).
Install:
- http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/ and put the xalan jars into
the lib folder of ANT. This is required to make ANT able to
process XSLT.
- docbook-xsl, available at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/
Just download the docbook-xsl package, you don't need anything
else here.
If you compile with a JDK 1.5 or above, you are very likely
to experience issues with the built-in xslt engine. A
work-around is to override the default engine with xalan
(for instance). Download Xalan and put its jars in the
jre/lib/endorsed/ directory (you may have to create it).
- FOP, available at http://xml.apache.org/fop/
3.4 FLTK library
FLTK, available at http://www.fltk.org The easiest way is probably to
grab a recent source package of fltk, then to run under an MSYS/MINGW
environment the three commands: "./configure", "make", and "make
install".
3.5 Configure:
- Open the build.xml ant script at the root of the project, and
change the properties located at the top of the file. They are just
under the comment:
<!-- set here the properties specific to your computer -->
Read carefully the comments and set the properties accordingly.
3.6 Building the project
To
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build the project, run the following command: ant jar

build the wrappers: ant compileskels
run the program: ant run
build a distribution: ant dist

4. License
The JSmooth project is distributed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License. Please read the License.txt file that comes with the
package. Additional software bundled with JSmooth may come with their
own license, please check.
The executable generated (the launchers created by JSmooth) are under
the LGPL with a "runtime exception" similar to the gcc licence
exception: It is not required that you distribute the source code
with, nor that you publish a notice mentionning jsmooth.