How to create a simple scala standalone jar?

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1

Hi!

Being a total beginner with gradle i wanted to create a standalone jar for a scala hello world project with gradle.

You can see what i tried here:

Maybe you can indicate what i did wrong and how i should proceed?

Thanks!

2

You haven’t declared a Scala library. See the Scala chapter in the Gradle User Guide, and the Scala samples in the full Gradle distribution.

3

Thanks for the hint!

When i add the scala library as a dependency like this:

apply plugin: 'gradle-one-jar'
apply plugin: 'scala'
  buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
  classpath 'com.github.rholder:gradle-one-jar:1.0.3'
  compile 'org.scala-lang:scala-library:2.9.1'
     }
}
  task awesomeFunJar(type: OneJar) {
 mainClass = 'example.Hi'
}

I get this error message:

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'Hello'.
> No signature of method: org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.compile() is applicable for argument types: (java.lang.Str
ing) values: [org.scala-lang:scala-library:2.9.1]
Possible solutions: module(java.lang.Object)

I dont really know what that means

4

That’s not the correct way to declare the Scala dependency (repo/dependency declaration needs to go outside ‘buildscript’). Have another look at the docs and samples.

5

that is really confusing for me as i tried to follow the instructions of the one-jar plugin correctly:

There the dependencies are also inside a “buildscript” .

still, when i remove it like this:

apply plugin: 'gradle-one-jar'
apply plugin: 'scala'
    repositories {
    maven {
        mavenCentral()
    }
}
  dependencies {
 compile 'com.github.rholder:gradle-one-jar:1.0.3'
 compile 'org.scala-lang:scala-library:2.9.1'
 }
    task awesomeFunJar(type: OneJar) {
 mainClass = 'example.Hi'
}

i get this error:

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'Hello'.
> Plugin with id 'gradle-one-jar' not found.
6

You have to make a difference between the dependencies of the build and the dependencies of your code. The former go inside ‘buildscript’, the latter go outside. Hence:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.github.rholder:gradle-one-jar:1.0.3'
    }
}
  apply plugin: 'gradle-one-jar'
apply plugin: 'scala'
  repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}
  dependencies {
    compile 'org.scala-lang:scala-library:2.9.1'
}
    task awesomeFunJar(type: OneJar) {
    mainClass = 'example.Hi'
}
7

Excellent, that worked! Thanks a lot!