如何以OS独立的方式在Proguard配置中包含rt.jar / classes.jar？

Question

As described in Proguard's troubleshooting page :

In MacOS X, the run-time classes may be in a different place than on most other platforms. You'll then have to adapt your configuration, replacing the path <java.home>/lib/rt.jar by <java.home>/../Classes/classes.jar .

So for instance, on non-Mac environments you might have the following in your Proguard config:

-libraryjars <java.home>/lib/rt.jar

But for Mac environments you would point to classes.jar .

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This is fine if this is only ever developed on a Mac, but if this code is checked into version control and shared by developers on multiple OSs and also on a build server running a different OS, it needs to be more flexible.

Is there a way to configure this in Proguard to work no matter what OS it runs on, without requiring users of the code to make filesystem changes ?

Answer 1

You could define a system variable that depends on the environment and use that:

-libraryjars <runtime.jar>

However, if you are developing for Android:

• You should not refer to rt.jar or classes.jar , since they contain many java runtime classes that are not present in the Android runtime.
• You should not specify -libraryjars , since the Ant/Eclipse/Gradle build processes already automatically specify all necessary -injars , -outjars , and -libraryjars for you.

If you see warnings about missing java runtime classes, you should consider an option like -dontwarn javax.** . See the ProGuard manual > Troubleshooting > Warning: can't find referenced class .