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Create a conveyor.conf that looks like this:

conveyor.conf
include "/stdlib/jdk/17/openjdk.conf"  You can import JDKs by major version, major/minor version, and by naming a specific distribution.

app {
    inputs += build/jars/my-program-1.0.jar
    inputs += build/jars

    icons = "icon-*.png"

    vendor = Global MegaCorp  This is optional. It'll be prefixed to the display name and used as a directory name  in various places; skip it if you don't work for an organization.

    site.base-url = global-megacorp.com/myproduct  This is where the created packages will look for update metadata.

}

This configuration adds your app's main JAR as the first input, allowing package metadata like the main class name, the version number and name to be derived from the file name. Then it adds the directory containing all the app JARs (duplicates are ignored), and finally a set of icon files. That's all you need! The extra inferred configuration will look like this:

// This will all be figured out by Conveyor automatically:
app {
    fsname = my-program  The fsname is what's used for names on Linux e.g. in the bin directory, for directories under lib. In fact when specified the vendor is also used, and the program will be called global-megacorp-my-program unless the long-fsname key is overridden.

    display-name = My Program  The display name is the human readable brand name. It's generated from the app.fsname here by replacing dashes with spaces and re-capitalizing.

    version = 1.0  The version number was taken from the file name of the first input.

    rdns-name = com.global-megacorp.myproduct

    jvm {
        main-class = com.example.MyProgram  The main class was read from the MANIFEST.MF of the JAR file. If your JAR isn't actually executable by running java -jar or if you have more than one JAR with a main class, then this will fail and you'll need to specify it by hand.


        modules = [ ... ]  The JDK modules to include in the JVM will be inferred by scanning your JARs with the jdeps tool, so the JVM will be shrunk automatically.

    }
}

Sometimes you don't want the settings to be inferred from the first input like that. In this case you can specify the config directly. Look at these sections of the guidebook to learn more: