Example Maven project for Jaylib

You can import this project into IntelliJ or Eclipse.

Use it to run the included examples in IntelliJ

Right-click on the example and select run.

Use it to run the included examples from the command line

mvn compile exec:java -Dmain.class="examples.HeightMap"
mvn compile exec:java -Dmain.class="examples.CubicMap"

Use it as the basis of your own game.

Edit Main.java with your own code. (You can delete the examples.) Then

To run:

mvn compile exec:java

To build an uberjar you can distribute:

mvn package

To run your uberjar (requires user has Java installed):

java -jar target/jaylib-maven-example-project-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Native image

You will need to download Graal and extract the archive. Set an env variable with the location, e.g.

export GRAALVM_HOME=/home/richard/Downloads/graalvm-jdk-22+36.1/

Then to build a native image you can distribute that doesn't require Java to run:

mvn clean -Pnative package

If you have any game resouces (images, sounds) that you store inside your jar file then you will need to edit src/main/resources/META-INF/native-image/reflect-config.json to let native-image find them.