Manage graalvm native images

[valdo404]

Hi,

Is there any plan to support builds of native executables using graalvm. ie native-image.

if not, would you be interested in a prototype + a Pull Request ? I'm playing with it.

Thanks.

[muuki88]

Thanks for your notice.

There are plans now 🤗 this sounds like a very interesting use case for native-packager. I would love to discuss this on prototype pull request. I haven't had the time yet to tinker around with graalvm 😋

[ScalaWilliam]

Yes please.

[lbialy]

I'd love to help, I'm currently working on a side project containing http4s app compiled to a native binary and I was able to get some insight into DOs and DONTs with native-image tool and SVM. Are you guys on gitter?

[muuki88]

Thanks for offering your help @lbialy ❤️

While sbt-native-packager has a gitter channel, I'm very grateful for all discussion happening on github issues and pull requests. I understand that this is more time consuming and not very interactive, but researching the past is a lot easier 😉 ... gitter discussions are hard to find, reconstruct and relate.

@valdo404 if you need any help to get started, feel free to ask. I can recommend the DockerPlugin or RpmPlugin, which are the most straightforward and clean format plugins.

[ScalaWilliam]

I 100% support discussing most things on GitHub @muuki88 . Much easier to read history and context.

[ScalaWilliam]

I took on it: #1165

[ScalaWilliam]

This is solved. https://sbt-native-packager.readthedocs.io/en/latest/formats/graalvm-native-image.html