Building a self-executable jar with Gradle and Kotlin

Question

I\'ve written a simple kotlin source file in order to get started, and a gradle script file. But I can\'t figure out how to add the main func to the manifest, so that the ja

Answer 1

None of the above solution worked for me while building Artifact.

IDE version IntelliJ IDEA 2019.1.1.

To fix the issue, do the following

Steps

Step 1 - Create Artifact

1. Go to File -> Project Structure -> Artifacts

2. Click the + -> JAR -> From modules with dependencies

3. Select your program's Main Class

Step 2 - Change MANIFEST Path

4. Change value of Directory for META-INF/MANIFEST.MF to your project root.

   For example , from /your/project/directory/src/main/kotlin to /your/project/directory

5. Press OK,then Press Apply and OK.

Step 3 - Build Artifact

6. Finally, Go to Build -> Build Artifacts -> [your-artifact-name] -> Build.

The generated JAR file can be found in the out/artifact/[your-artifact-name] directory. (y)