First, I will like to say that I achieve this by following the tutorial from the from GraalVM and also reviewed some sample projects that they pushed out to help developers like us.

1. Ensure you have GraalVM installed on your local computer. For me, I use a Mac and was able to install it using SDKMAN. SDKMAN is a useful tool for easy management of JDKs.

curl -s "https://get.sdkman.io" | bash

2. Install GraalVM JDK:

sdk install java 17.0.9-graal && sdk use java 17.0.9-graal

At the point of writing this, I installed GraalVM support for java17. You can read the SDKMAN documentation to find more information on how you can install a specific version.

3. Now that you have GraalVM installed, you are ready to start tinkering.

• Clone the project

git clone https://github.com/<project.git>

4. CD into the project folder and compile the project to create a runnable JAR with all dependencies. Run in your terminal:

mvn clean package

5. Run your application with the agent enabled:

mvn -Pnative -Dagent exec:exec@java-agent

The agent collects the metadata and generates the configuration files in a subdirectory of target/native/agent-output. Those files will be automatically used by the native-image tool if you pass the appropriate options.

6. Now build a native executable with the Maven profile:

mvn -DskipTests=true -Pnative -Dagent package

When the command completes, a native executable, javalin-native, is created in the /target directory of the project and ready for use.

7. Run the executable directly or with the Maven profile:

./target/javalin-native | mvn -Pnative exec:exec@native

• Run tests on building native executable file

Kindly create a PR for any error fixes, improvements and updates.