Leiningen: Create executable jar to run without java -jar

Question

I'm trying to understand how to package a command line application written in Clojure for distribution. I don't want users to have to use java -jar myproject.jar arg1 arg2 to run the program. PHP has something called "Phar" files, which are basically executable zip files, so they include a shebang that tells POSIX systems how to unpack and run them.

I've seen other Clojure apps that allow the jar file to be set chmod +x and then executed directly. How do they achieve this? Uberjar just seems to make a jar that requires the java -jar prefix.

Answer 1

You can do this using lein-bin.