Compiling Groovy 1.7.6 with IKVM

If you'd like to see how to compile Groovy 1.7.6 under IKVM.NET take a look at this archive. It contains everything you need to be able to turn the groovy-all-1.7.6.jar (and its dependencies) into both an executable (that runs the console) and a library that can then be embedded into a .NET application.

Beware: This is a 27MB download so it's not a small thing.

groovy-1.7.6-net.zip

A note about the compilation process

Please note that there are some issues during 2 phases of the compilation:
1. The first one occurs when compiling commons-logging-1.1.1.jar as it also requires LogKit which I was to lazy to collect and compile
2. The second one occurs while compiling Groovy itself as there are still some dependencies missing. They aren't however important enough to block the usage of compiled library and executable.

Let me know if you'll find this interesting and/or useful :)

Groovy scripting from C#

Well, after the last finding that the Groovy Console executes on IKVM.NET what must have followed was embedding of Groovy scripting capabilities in a C# application.



Here you can snatch the project along with everything needed to compile and run it (besides the .NET framework of course). Beware, it's a 19MB download (50MB+ after unzipping). I've created it using Visual C# Express 2010.

Have fun!

Groovy 1.7.6 under .NET

Well, I finally did it! It did require a huge leap of fate but it finally turned out possible: Groovy running on .NET using IKVM 0.44.0.5!



And not only running but also interoperating with .NET classes!



It's running extremely slow but stable enough to play around a bit with it.

Next step: using Groovy classes from .NET!