Application Bootstrap

This is a simple bootstrap to create an Windows executable from a Kotlin project.

Current features:

• Gradle Project
• Kotlin configured
• creates EXE with 'packaged' JRE

Commands

• gradle test -> runs all tests
• gradle build -> builds everything, runs tests
• gradle run -> starts project
• gradle exe -> creates the executable

Insights

Launch4J offers the possibility to specify the JRE path to define the JRE to use on clients computer.

• First createExe (from Launch4J) is called. Here the exe and jars are created.
• Secondly copyJre is called. It extracts the java.zip from ./jre/ ... (this needs to be placed there manually)

At this point it is possible to start the exe within the folder.

• At last the whole Launch4J folder will be zipped and placed in launch4j-zip to have a ready-to-deliver artifact