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Standardize things for Linux packaging.
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2 <!-- Skeleton or template web page, in the standard style. -->
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3 <html>
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6 <title>Building ImagePrep</title>
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9 h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { font-family: "Avenir Next", sans-serif; }
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13 <body>
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14 <h1>Building ImagePrep</h1>
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15 <p>ImagePrep is a pure Java application. As such it is easy to build:</p>
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16 <ol>
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17 <li>Install prerequisites:</li>
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18 <ol type="a">
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19 <li><a href="https://ant.apache.org/">Apache Ant</a></li>
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20 <li><a href="http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/">Launch4j</a>, if you are
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21 building on Windows</li>
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22 <li>Java JDK 1.8 or better (see notes below).</li>
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23 <li><a href="https://kotlinlang.org/">Kotlin</a></li>
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24 </ol>
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25 <li>Type <code>ant clean</code> to be sure you’re starting with a clean
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26 slate.</li>
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27 <li>Use one of the following commands:</li>
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28 <ol type="a">
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29 <li><code>ant jar</code> — to build a “fat JAR” containing the
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30 application (and the Kotlin runtime)</li>
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31 <li><code>ant macapp</code> — to build a Macintosh application</li>
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32 <li><code>ant deb</code> — to build a Debian package for the Gnome
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33 desktop</li>
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34 <li><code>ant winapp</code> — to build a Windows application (requires <a
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35 href="http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/">Launch4j</a>)</li>
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36 </ol>
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37 </ol>
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38 <h2>Which Version of Java to Use?</h2>
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39 <p>In short, Java 1.8. Most systems don’t yet have OpenJDK 11 or greater
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40 installed, so using a compiler newer than 1.8 is asking for trouble. All
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41 code <em>should</em> build on OpenJDK 11 or greater, with the exception
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42 of the OS-dependent code for the Macintosh (which will have to be recoded
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43 to use the <code>java.awt.Desktop</code> class). The latter would be a
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44 net win, as it is portable, and would spell the death of the only bit of
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45 OS-dependent Kotlin code in this application.</p>
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46 <p></p>
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47 <ol>
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49 </ol>
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50 </ol>
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51 </body>
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52 </html>