Distribution

The Pine engine includes a build tool to distribute your games as executables, using Launch4j. The build tool also bundles the resources and a JRE.

Before running the build tool, make sure you create a configuration file for your application.

1. Build your project.

   gradle build

2. Start the build tool with gradle :pine:runBuildTool ROOT_DIR. Replace ROOT_DIR with the root directory of your project, which should include your pine-config.json file.

3. Test your application by executing the .exe file in the subdirectory /pine inside your build directory.

4. To distribute your application, copy the entire parent directory of your .exe file, including the /JRE and /resources folder and the version.txt file.

Gradle task

Alternatively, you can set up a gradle task to run the build tool with fewer steps:

1. Edit your build.gradle file and add the following lines:

   build.gradle

   tasks.register("createExe") {
       doLast {
           def buildTask = tasks.getByPath(":pine:runBuildTool")
           buildTask.args = [projectDir.absolutePath] // Pass the project directory as an argument
           buildTask.exec()
       }
   }

2. If you would like to automatically run the build tool every time your build your project, add the following line to build.gradle:

   tasks.named("build") { finalizedBy("createExe") }

3. To manually create an exe, run the following command:

   gradle createExe