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Asked: 2026-05-27T17:37:10+00:00

So I built my program blah blah blah. In the dist folder, I have

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So I built my program blah blah blah.

In the dist folder, I have my .jar, obviously, and the other dependencies the lib folder.

So I do javaw -jar name.jar and it runs perfectly fine, however, it has the cmd.exe box still there. I do the @echo off and it won’t print anything, but it still shows the black box.

So basically, how can I run this without anything coming up?

Further, I can easily make a shortcut, have the user put it on their desktop or w/e. But how can I have it so that the user double clicks and it runs (Like an .exe)?

Further more, how does this work on Mac/Linux? I don’t use Mac, and rarely use Linux, so I don’t know how this all works.

If you have any links or google searches, that works. I couldn’t find anything for about an hour/10+ searches, so I’m giving up hah.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Q: So basically, how can I run this without anything coming up?

    A: Use “javaw -jar ” instead of “java”.

    On Windows, you have several choices:

    1. Write a .bat file that calls “start javaw -jar myprog.jar”

    2. Instruct the user how to set their filetype associations in Windows Explorer (so that double-clicking a .jar automatically invokes “javaw”)

    3. Etc

    Here’s a good link that covers both Windows and Linux:

    http://www.wikihow.com/Run-a-.Jar-Java-File

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