All sources are embedded in the Sfx-1.0.0-all.jar in case we need to modify the source. For all practical purposes we treat this as a downloaded utility.

To build Linux/Windows

./gradlew clean build

Windows

gradlew.bat clean build

Building produces an install directory ./build/install/Sfx-shadow and the bin folder contains the executable. Running the following command without any arguments will list the command help. Linux/Mac

./build/install/Sfx-shadow/bin/Sfx

Windows

.\build\installSfx-shadow\bin\Sfx

The options are as shown below.

Option (* = required)            Description
---------------------            -----------
--an, --artifactName [String]    Name of the artifact to create (without the
                                   extension). Defaults to name of the name of
                                   the leaf input directory
* -d, --directory <File>         Directory to add to the zip archive
--wd, --workingDirectory [File]  Working directory. Zip file entries are
                                   created relative to this. Defaults to
                                   directory to be archived

For e.g.

Running the following

Linux/Mac

./build/install/Sfx-shadow/bin/Sfx -an test -d <full-path-to>/src

Windows

.\build\installSfx-shadow\bin\Sfx -an test -d <full-path-to>\src

will produce a self extracting test.exe (compatible with the Windows CE 6/7 platform).