Building hChat from Source - Team Hauchdev

Requirements

JDK 21 or newer.
Maven 3.5 or newer.

Clone and build

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/hauchdev/hChat.git
cd hChat

# Compile and package
mvn clean package

The shaded JAR is at:

plugin-dist/target/hChat-<version>.jar

Version management

The plugin version lives in one place: the <revision> property at the top of the root pom.xml. Change it there or pass -Drevision=1.3.0 to Maven, and every module, the filtered plugin.yml version, and the final jar name follow automatically. You never have to touch the other 13 POM files.

IDE setup

Open the project in IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse. Maven will download dependencies automatically.

Continuous integration

hChat uses .github/workflows/build.yml. Every push to dev runs mvn clean verify. Tagged v* builds additionally publish a GitHub Release with the packaged JAR.