Anyone using Lanterna and GraalVM native-image?

[Steve George]

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone has had any success creating GraalVM native-image's when using Lanterna?

So far I've discovered that Graal doesn't work with AWT/Swing so this discounts DefaultTerminalFactory.  Before I try further hoping someone has done this and can provide any hints or an example.

Thanks,

Steve

[Martin Berglund]

Hi Steve,

There are some discussions about GraalVM here:

https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna/issues/481

I haven't looked into it myself.

Martin

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[Steve George]

Hi Martin,

I've got this working on GraalVM 20.1.0 which is the current release. I have worked through the tutorial and compiled terminal, screen and GUI programs to full native image.

I've commented on the GitHub issue so others know it is possible. I think it's clear on the issue that it is possible, but here are some details on what I've done so far.

I'm using OpenJDK 11 and Clojure 1.10.1, I did create one test (terminal) program in Java and that was also fine. I'm compiling and testing under Linux (Ubuntu 16.04 / 20.04) with Xterm.

There were two issues:

1. Swing/AWT dependency

GraalVM doesn't support either of these: there's a lot of differing reports but pretty much all failure for both. I think there might be better ways to do this, but I just stopped using `DefaultTerminalFactory` and directly call UnixTerminal

In Clojure this means that I import com.googlecode.lanterna.terminal.Terminal and com.googlecode.lanterna.terminal.ansi.UnixTerminal

2. Class Dependencies when compiling

It's sometimes a bit difficult to work out all the classes that GraalVM will need. It has a "tracing agent" that you can run and it will figure out the classes that are used at runtime, this can then be fed into the compile stage. This made things easier for me, though may not be strictly necessary.

I've got the basics going, WindowBasedTextGUI adding Buttons and Labels. So far no reason to believe that other Components won't be fine as well.

Thanks,

Steve

On Sunday, May 31, 2020 at 7:07:18 AM UTC+1, Martin wrote:

Hi Steve,

There are some discussions about GraalVM here:

https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna/issues/481

I haven't looked into it myself.

Martin

Den lör 23 maj 2020 kl 17:06 skrev Steve George <slge...@gmail.com>:

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone has had any success creating GraalVM native-image's when using Lanterna?

So far I've discovered that Graal doesn't work with AWT/Swing so this discounts DefaultTerminalFactory.  Before I try further hoping someone has done this and can provide any hints or an example.

Thanks,

Steve

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[Martin Berglund]

I've backported the reflection calls on DefaultTerminalFactory to 3.0, so it doesn't try to import any of the AWT/Swing classes, but I'm not sure if it's enough to make it work.

Martin

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[Steve George]

Hi Martin,

I spent quite a lot of time on this, it gets further but I couldn't get it to complete.

I created a new issue:

https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna/issues/499

Thanks,

Steve

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