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Asked: 2026-05-19T09:08:20+00:00

In order to do some multi-platform GUI development, I have just switched from GTK

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In order to do some multi-platform GUI development, I have just switched from GTK + Clojure (because it looks like the Java bindings for GTK never got ported to Windows) to SWT + Clojure. So far, so good in that I have gotten an uberjar built for Linux.

The catch, though, is that I want to build an uberjar for Windows and I am trying to figure out a clean way to manage the project.clj file.

At first, I thought I would set the classpath to point to the SWT libraries and then build the uberjar. This would require that I set a classpath to the SWT libraries before running the jar, but I would likely need a launcher script, anyway. However, leiningen seems to ignore the classpath in this instance because it always reports that

Currently, project.clj looks like this for me:

(defproject alyra.mana-punk/character "1.0.0-SNAPSHOT"
  :description "FIXME: write"
  :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.2.0"]
                 [org.clojure/clojure-contrib "1.2.0"]
                 [org.eclipse/swt-gtk-linux-x86 "3.5.2"]]
  :main alyra.mana-punk.character.core)

The relevant line is the org.eclipse/swt-gtk-linux-x86 line. If I want to make an uberjar for Windows, I have to depend on org.eclipse/swt-win32-win32-x86, and another one for x86-64, and so on and so forth.

My current solution is to simply create a separate branch for each build environment with a different project.clj. This seems kinda like using a semi to deliver a single gallon of milk, but I am using bazaar for version control, so branching and repeated integrations are easy. Maybe the better way is to have a project.linux.clj, project.win32.clj, etc, but I do not see any way to tell leiningen which project descriptor to use.

What are other (preferably more elegant) ways to set up such an environment?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Here’s a quite elegant solution using Java system properties:

    (let [properties (select-keys (into {} (System/getProperties))
                              ["os.arch" "os.name"])
      platform (apply format "%s (%s)" (vals properties))
      swt (case platform
            "Windows XP (x86)" '[org.eclipse/swt-win32-win32-x86 "3.5.2"]
            "Linux (x86)"      '[org.eclipse/swt-gtk-linux-x86 "3.5.2"])]
  (defproject alyra.mana-punk/character "1.0.0-SNAPSHOT"
    :description "FIXME: write"
    :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.2.0"]
                   [org.clojure/clojure-contrib "1.2.0"]
                   ~swt]
    :main alyra.mana-punk.character.core))
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