Question

I am new to clojure and I have tried to compile it last night but I couldn’t seem to do it and I have no idea. I am on windows and don’t know much about java. I just want a stand-alone file that I can give to my friends. (I know they need java) Can anyone help?

Answer 1

The easiest way would be to use Leiningen. You can make a very simple project.clj file for your project with :main pointing to your main file’s namespace, and then you could do ‘lein uberjar’ on the command-line and it would stick all your dependencies in a single executable jar file.

I’ll point out that every file that needs to be compiled must have a namespace with :gen-class enabled. For example:

(ns whatever.main
  (:gen-class))