how to build a project?

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-04-01 17:24:38
User: smcbot [] (age: 947 days 🙌; posts: 12)}
So basically... I need to know how to properly put together a LITI project probably with gradle (I think). I have written most of my game in eclipse by importing the LITI jars but I don't want to do anything that I'll have to change in the end. But I have no clue how to properly package it into a jar (or something else executable). I have no experience whatsoever with any build automation tools I have always compiled my programs into jar files myself. So some help with how you can properly assemble a LITI project. Another thing to consider is that I want to have a file to store permanent information about the player (like current level), and I don't know how that will work.
Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-04-02 09:30:36
User: nightm4re [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1567 days 🔥; posts: 185)}
I have just created a ~~documentation page for deploying LITIengine games. Most of the information there was directly taken from our internal notes on how to deploy **Naughty Elves**, so it has proven to be working in the past. The Guide relies on Gradle as a build system, so if you don't have that set up yet, have a look at our **~~~~~~Gurk Nukem** project and its ~~~~~~~~build.gradle and ~~~~~~~~settings.gradle to get an understanding what is needed in your Gradle setup.
In the future, we need to provide non-Gradle deployment guides as well.
Regarding player progress and savegames, have a look at the new ~~"Savegames" documentation page. This was just very quickly written down using an example from an older version of **~~Dr. Lepus**, but it should give you a good idea how to get started with savegames.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-04-02 16:16:30
User: smcbot [] (age: 947 days 🙌; posts: 12)}
Thanks so much! I'll check out these documentation pages.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-04-02 17:30:39
User: nightm4re [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1567 days 🔥; posts: 185)}
Oh, I just noticed that the example on Xml savegames is so old, it doesn't use LITIengine's ~~~~XmlUtilities. Be sure to check out ~~~~XmlUtilities.read(...)and ~~~~XmlUtilities.save(...) so you won't have to instantiate a JAXBContext yourself.
Edit: Fixed.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-04-02 20:23:26
User: steffen [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1568 days 🔥; posts: 100)}
nightm4re keep in mind that the gradle target ~~~~fullbuild is a custom target of the LITIengine and only works when referencing the engine from source.
Also and ~~~~distZipWindow is a custom target in the ~~~~build.gradle file of the game.
~~~~createAllExecutables is only available with the ~~~~edu.sc.seis.launch4j plugin.
Gurk Nukem doesn't have these targets (yet). Maybe we should share the ~~~~build.gradle of Naughty Elves as a blueprint. Some of that script gets even easier when referencing the engine as implementation reference instead of directly from source.
The documentation here though to provide a first idea of how the deployment task can be tackled.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-04-02 21:55:23
User: nightm4re [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1567 days 🔥; posts: 185)}
Thanks for these hints, I didn't intend this as a definitive guide at all :D Just a brief overview without writing too much myself...

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-04-03 07:26:25
User: nightm4re [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1567 days 🔥; posts: 185)}
I just copypasted the Naughty Elves ~~~~build.gradle to the doc site so you can see all required tasks.
However, we should add some comments in the code block and strip it down to the essentials when we find the time.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-04-04 15:32:04
User: smcbot [] (age: 947 days 🙌; posts: 12)}
Ok thanks so much!

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-04-04 16:20:34
User: smcbot [] (age: 947 days 🙌; posts: 12)}
Ok now I'm a bit confused. Should the fullbuild task be in the build.gradle? I adjusted the one you provided at
https://docs.litiengine.com/basics/deployment
and while that does add the distZipWindows, distZipLinux, distZipOZX and the launch4j tasks, I still can't use the fullbuild task. Also, in your deployment tutorial, it says you need to run the clear task. I can't use that task but I can use the clean task, are they the same thing?