How to use Launch4J with obfuscated jar in Gradle

Question

I am trying to create an executable with Launch4J with my obfuscated jar but I have a problem. Every time I run the createEXE task via Gradle, the shadowJar task also runs causing my obfuscated jar to be overwritten.

How to I use my obfuscated jar with Launch4J's createExe task? Otherwise how do I stop shadowJar from running during the execution of createExe?

Here is my Launch4J task:

launch4j {
    jar = "${projectDir}/build/libs/plugin.jar"
    outfile = 'Plugin.exe'
    icon = "${projectDir}/etc/icon.ico"
    mainClassName = 'plugin.Driver'
    bundledJrePath = './jre'
    jreMinVersion = '1.8.0_161'
    jdkPreference = 'preferJdk'
}

Answer 1

You should just ignore the shadowJar task using the -x option. It tells Gradle to skip the specified task.

gradle -x shadowJar createExe

You can also do permanently like that :

gradle.taskGraph.whenReady { taskGraph ->
    if (taskGraph.hasTask(createExe)) {
        shadowJar.enabled = false
    }
}