Getting Started

Note: you must have at least version 1.10.1.727 of the Clojure CLI installed! Version 1.10.3.855 is the latest stable version as of depstar 2.1.267. See Clojure Tools Releases for details about the functionality in recent CLI releases.

Add depstar via one or more aliases in your project deps.edn or user-level deps.edn (in ~/.clojure/ or ~/.config/clojure/):

{
 :aliases {
  ;; build an uberjar (application) with AOT compilation by default:
  :uberjar {:replace-deps {com.github.seancorfield/depstar {:mvn/version "2.1.267"}}
            :exec-fn hf.depstar/uberjar
            :exec-args {:aot true}}
  ;; build a jar (library):
  :jar {:replace-deps {com.github.seancorfield/depstar {:mvn/version "2.1.267"}}
        :exec-fn hf.depstar/jar
        :exec-args {}}
 }
}

Create an uberjar by invoking depstar with the desired jar name:

clojure -X:uberjar :jar MyProject.jar

An uberjar created by that command can be run as follows:

java -cp MyProject.jar clojure.main -m project.core

If you want to be able to use java -jar to run your uberjar, you'll need to specify the main class (namespace) in the uberjar and you'll probably want to AOT compile your main namespace. See Building an Application JAR, and the :main-class and AOT Compilation sections for more detail.

Create a (library) jar by invoking depstar with the desired jar name:

clojure -X:jar :jar MyLib.jar

Note: if you have a user.clj file on your default classpath -- in any folders that are in :paths in your deps.edn -- Clojure will attempt to load that at startup, before running depstar. In such cases, you will likely need to add :replace-paths [] along with :replace-deps in your aliases for depstar.

If you want to deploy a library to Clojars (or Maven Central), you're going to also need a pom.xml file -- see pom.xml for more details. For deployment to Clojars, please read the Clojars Verified Group Names policy.

If you want to see all of the files that are being copied into the JAR file, add :verbose true after the JAR filename.