Setting system properties with “sbt run”

Question

I\'m using a pretty recent version of SBT (seems to be hard to figure out what the version is). I want to pass system properties to my application with sbt run

Answer 1

SBT's runner doesn't normally create new processes, so you also have to tell it to do this if you want to set the arguments that are passed. You can add something like this to your build settings:

fork := true

javaOptions := Seq("-Dmx=1024M")

There's more detail on forking processes in the SBT documentation.