Launch4j Executable Wrapper / News: Recent posts

• Ticket #218, #222 Support min/max version check during path search (Barry McGillin, Han Shum).
• Ticket #224 Setting multiple relative paths for bundled JREs is not working (Wladimir Leite).
• Simplified and consistent configuration for finding 64-Bit runtimes and JDKs during path and registry search.
• Path is now the primary search, registry secondary for better compatibility with latest runtimes.
• Please see the docs regarding configuration changes.

• FR #127 Added multiple bundled JRE path search (%JAVA_HOME%).
• Allow equal sign in environment variable assignments.
• Fix sign4j warnings for implicit definition of lseek, read, write, close, and access (foss1024).
• Add launch4j console mode launch script for *nix (Luke S).
• Tickets #172, #186, #198, #200, #206 Launch4j GUI supports also Java 1.9 and up.

• Ticket #179, #183 The generated executable fully supports Java 9 and newer (Sergey Karpushin).
• Ticket #161 Support of update version higher than 99 (Sergey Karpushin).
• Ticket #177 Launching on Java 9 JDK and newer is now possible (not just JRE).

Launch4j is a cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs. It provides advanced JRE search, application startup configuration and better user experience.

Changes in version 3.9 (20-07-2016)

• Ticket #146 Fixed java version check where the update number was greater than 99 (e.g. 1.8.0_101).
• Enlarged the total classpath length to 30KB.
• Ticket #142 Unbound VersionInfo returns wrong LanguageID (Sebastian Bögl).
• Ticket #141 Ensure encoding of resource file to be iso-8859-1 (Thomas Scheithauer).
• More reactive splash screen response to main window appearance (Federico Fissore).
• FR #95 Launch4j should return an exit value (Sebastian Bögl).
• FR #94 Add the working directory classifier for OS X (Sebastian Bögl).
• FR #39 Launch Java VM through JNI (Ryan Rusaw) - BETA!
• FR #69 Configure the language property of generated executables (Sebastian Bögl).
• FR #77 Add legal trademarks as an additional field in version info tab (Sebastian Bögl).
• Added a simple example how to use the Maven plugin (demo/ExitCodeApp).

Launch4j is a cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs. It provides advanced JRE search, application startup configuration and better user experience.

Changes in version 3.8 (09-05-2015)

• FR #59 Mavenized launch4j (thanks to taxone, Paul Jungwirth, Lukasz Lenart).
• Ticket #139 Sign4j compiles and works on Linux (Tim Angus).

Launch4j is a cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs. It provides advanced JRE search, application startup configuration and better user experience.

Changes in version 3.7 (01-03-2015)

• Fixed false positive virus warnings that appeared in version 3.6.

Launch4j is a cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs. It provides advanced JRE search, application startup configuration and better user experience.

Changes in version 3.6.1 (19-01-2015)

• Removed compiled header files from .zip and .exe packages which caused a false positive virus warning.

Launch4j is a cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs. It provides advanced JRE search, application startup configuration and better user experience.

Changes in version 3.6 (06-01-2015)

• FR #86 The 32/64 bit search is fully configurable (64, 64/32, 32/64, 32) - added option 32/64.
• FR #70 Java search sequence - bundled JRE can be used before or after the min/max version search (bundledJreAsFallback).
• Fixed: Crash when classpath contained wildcard patterns where the dependency was in the same directory as the launcher.
• Updated to Dev-Cpp 5.7.1, MinGW 4.8.1 (head_src and w32api files).
• Fixed Launch4j GUI application closing - the process was still running.

Launch4j is a cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs. It provides advanced JRE search, application startup configuration and better user experience.

Changes in version 3.4 (21-04-2014)

• FR #61 Added a new special variable JREHOMEDIR (Stefan Knoefel).
• Ticket #130 Removed ant from launch4j classpath to fix problems with other ant versions.
• Updated JGoodies libraries.
• Added logging based on Launch4j environment variable for file association launch testing.

Launch4j is a cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs. It provides advanced JRE search, application startup configuration and better user experience.

Changes in version 3.3 (02-04-2014)

• FR #60 Check the registry during JRE search, so that only valid runtimes are taken into account.
• Ticket #128 Updated MAC OS X 10.8 windres to 2.24.51.20140326 - version info was compiled incorrectly (Code Buddy).
• Added support for Japanese characters (Toshimm).
• Ticket #82, #125 Take configuration encoding into account and save file with UTF-8 encoding.

Launch4j is a cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs. It provides advanced JRE search, application startup configuration and better user experience.

Changes in version 3.2 (24-03-2014)

• Ticket #126, #127: Fixed crash when classpath was not defined.
• Corrected problem with loading jvm options from ini file when bundled JRE is used.
• FR #63, #80 Add possibility to configure 32/64 bit search.
• Improved logging (--l4j-debug and --l4j-debug-all).

Launch4j is a cross-platform tool for wrapping Java applications distributed as jars in lightweight Windows native executables. The executable can be configured to search for a certain JRE version or use a bundled one, and it's possible to set runtime options, like the initial/max heap size. The wrapper also provides better user experience through an application icon, a native pre-JRE splash screen, a custom process name, and a Java download page in case the appropriate JRE cannot be found. ... read more

Launch4j is a cross-platform tool for wrapping Java applications distributed as jars in lightweight Windows native executables. The executable can be configured to search for a certain JRE version or use a bundled one, and it's possible to set runtime options, like the initial/max heap size. The wrapper also provides better user experience through an application icon, a native pre-JRE splash screen, a custom process name, and a Java download page in case the appropriate JRE cannot be found.... read more

Launch4j is a cross-platform tool for wrapping Java applications distributed as jars in lightweight Windows native executables. The executable can be configured to search for a certain JRE version or use a bundled one, and it's possible to set runtime options, like the initial/max heap size. The wrapper also provides better user experience through an application icon, a native pre-JRE splash screen, a custom process name, and a Java download page in case the appropriate JRE cannot be found.... read more

Launch4j is a cross-platform tool for wrapping Java applications distributed as jars in lightweight Windows native executables. The executable can be configured to search for a certain JRE version or use a bundled one, and it's possible to set runtime options, like the initial/max heap size. The wrapper also provides better user experience through an application icon, a native pre-JRE splash screen, a custom process name, and a Java download page in case the appropriate JRE cannot be found. ... read more

Launch4j is a cross-platform tool for wrapping Java applications distributed as jars in lightweight Windows native executables. The executable can be configured to search for a certain JRE version or use a bundled one, and it's possible to set runtime options, like the initial/max heap size. The wrapper also provides better user experience through an application icon, a native pre-JRE splash screen, a custom process name, and a Java download page in case the appropriate JRE cannot be found. ... read more

Launch4j is a cross-platform tool for wrapping Java applications distributed as jars in lightweight Windows native executables. The executable can be configured to search for a certain JRE version or use a bundled one, and it's possible to set runtime options, like the initial/max heap size. The wrapper also provides better user experience through an application icon, a native pre-JRE splash screen, a custom process name, and a Java download page in case the appropriate JRE cannot be found. ... read more

Launch4j is a cross-platform tool for wrapping Java applications distributed as jars in lightweight Windows native executables. The executable can be configured to search for a certain JRE version or use a bundled one, and it's possible to set runtime options, like the initial/max heap size. The wrapper also provides better user experience through an application icon, a native pre-JRE splash screen, a custom process name, and a Java download page in case the appropriate JRE cannot be found. ... read more

Launch4j is a cross-platform tool for wrapping Java applications distributed as jars in lightweight Windows native executables. The executable can be configured to search for a certain JRE version or use a bundled one, and it's possible to set runtime options, like the initial/max heap size. The wrapper also provides better user experience through an application icon, a native pre-JRE splash screen, a custom process name, and a Java download page in case the appropriate JRE cannot be found. ... read more

Launch4j is a cross-platform tool for wrapping Java applications distributed as jars in lightweight Windows native executables. The executable can be configured to search for a certain JRE version or use a bundled one, and it's possible to set runtime options, like the initial/max heap size. The wrapper also provides better user experience through an application icon, a native pre-JRE splash screen, a custom process name, and a Java download page in case the appropriate JRE cannot be found. ... read more

Launch4j is a cross-platform tool for wrapping Java applications distributed as jars in lightweight Windows native executables. The executable can be configured to search for a certain JRE version or use a bundled one, and it's possible to set runtime options, like the initial/max heap size. The wrapper also provides better user experience through an application icon, a native pre-JRE splash screen, a custom process name, and a Java download page in case the appropriate JRE cannot be found. ... read more