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Building Installer or Executable Binaries for Drifty

Generating GraalVM Metadata

This step is required only if you want to see your changes reflected in Drifty CLI or GUI executables. If you are only interested in building the installer or executable binaries, you can skip this step.

Prerequisites

Steps

Open the terminal and navigate to the project directory

Generate GraalVM metadata

Follow the below instructions to generate GraalVM metadata for Drifty CLI or GUI

  • Navigate to the GUI directory 
    cd GUI
  • Run the below command to generate GraalVM metadata for Drifty GUI. You’ll need to perform the new actions which you want to reflect in the executable binaries. 
    mvn gluonfx:runagent

Upon completion of the command, the GraalVM metadata will be generated in GUI/src/main/resources/META-INF/native-image directory.

Prerequisites

Steps

Check if GraalVM is added to the system path by running native-image --version in the terminal. If the command is not recognized, add the GraalVM bin directory to the system path.

PATH=$GRAALVM_HOME/bin

Set the following environment variable to point to your GraalVM installation directory.

GRAALVM_HOME=<path-to-graalvm>

Replace <path-to-graalvm> with the actual path to the GraalVM installation directory.

  1. Open the terminal and navigate to the project directory
  2. Assuming you have installed the necessary project dependencies, run the below command to generate the C object file required only for building executable binaries for Drifty GUI 
    gcc -c config/missing_symbols.c -o config/missing_symbols-ubuntu-latest.o
    Replace gcc with the path to the GCC compiler if it is not in the system path.
  3. Run the below command to build the installer or executable binaries 
    mvn -P build-drifty-gui-for-ubuntu-latest gluonfx:build gluonfx:package -rf :GUI -U
  4. Upon completion of the build, the installer or executable binaries will be neatly organized in the directories listed below. 
    GUI/target/gluonfx/{arch}-linux

    The placeholder {arch} should be replaced with either x86_64 or aarch64, depending on your system’s architecture.

  5. You can now run the installer or executable binaries to use the application.
  6. To remove the generated files, run the below command from the project directory 
    mvn clean
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