[1.7.10] Including a jar inside of my mod

[yoshiquest]

I feel bad for asking another question so soon, but I need help here (also gradle is confusing for me).

 

Anyways, I think I'm almost ready to start distributing my library, but I want to take care of something first. While everything does run, it still requires the user to have a copy of Clojure.jar (the Clojure compiler) in the mods folder, on top of forge-clj (the library/wrapper I made) and the mod they want to run.

 

So what I'm asking is: is there a way to include a jar file (or its contents) inside the mod jar? Clojure is freely redistributable, so the only problem here is actually including it.

[Failender]

you want a hacky way? decompile it , add it to your workspace and compile ur mod with the library inside. i bet there are better ways

[yoshiquest]

Yeah, that probably won't work, since Clojure itself is pretty much written in raw bytecode rather than java from what I understand (so decompiling it won't work well), but thanks anyways.

[Elix_x]

Another even hackier method:

-Open mod jar.

-Open Clojure.jar

-Copy contents of second in first.

-Close jars.

You have to use professional software that can open and maniopulate jars! Like Total Commander fo example...

Otherwise, this is probably the hackiest way and it may not work:

-Rename mod .jar to .zip

-Rename clojure.jar to .zip

-Copy contentes of clojure.zip in to mod.zip

-Rename mod.zip back to mod.jar.

This may work, this may not... Just try...

[Failender]

even winrar can edit jar files sir..

[yoshiquest]

I was honestly hoping that there would be a way to merge the jars automatically using forge gradle....

 

Thanks anyways I guess.

 

EDIT: I think I found an answer on stack overflow here, I'll give it a shot.

[yoshiquest]

Oh, thank you! This is really useful!

 

(I should be able to actually release a usable version of this thing soon, I'll make a post in the mods section when I do.)

[Draco18s]

readthedocs.org/

 

Ha, love the url. Don't think I've noticed that before.