[SOLVED] Can't Launch Game jar

[duce]

I exported my jar in eclipse, but it won't run. There are no errors, nothing happens. I tried putting the req. libraries in a folder and tried packaging them in a jar, but it still does nothing.

Edit: I'm using the Slick2D framework.

[Alan_W]

Open the jar with Winzip or 7-zip.

Check there is a folder called META-INF that contains a file called MANIFEST.MF

Open MANIFEST.MF in a text editor.

It should be something like:

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Manifest-Version: 1.0 Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.7.1 Created-By: 14.3-b01 (Sun Microsystems Inc.) Main-Class: LevelEditor.LevelEditor Class-Path: X-COMMENT: Main-Class will be added automatically by build

Look for the line Main-Class which should list the class file in the jar which contains the main() function that is to be called.

If any of the above isn't there, you haven't got an executable jar.  

Edit: If that isn't it, I'd look at the Class-Path next, which probably should have something in it if you are using additional libraries.

[Saucer]

I don't really know how all of this works, but what works for me is putting the relevant DLLs and JAR libraries in the same folder as the exported JAR.

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[gbeebe]

What does your java console say?

[duce]

Thanks for all the help! I used JarSplice (http://ninjacave.com/jarsplice) to put lwjgl's natives in the right place.

[ra4king]

You have 2 options:
- If you want to launch directly by double-clicking the jar file, you will have to put all the natives and other JARs in the same directory as the game JAR and modify the Class-Path in the Manifest to include the other JARs, as Alan_W has showed you.
- Otherwise if you want to organize your natives and JARs, you will have to use a script (a BAT file for Windows or shell script for Unix) that looks like this:

1	java -Djava.library.path="relative/path/to/natives/folder/" -cp "relative/path.jar;to/jars.jar" -jar MyGame.jar

[Cero]

JarSplice never worked for me either and the eclipse export jar thing always worked nicely, so haven't bothered with JarSplice anymore since then