CreepWrap is a simple wrapper for Minecraft to allow it to run in the context of an executable other than the usual java.exe/javaw.exe. This allows system tools that operate on the executable name of a process (such as the NVIDIA Control Panel, when applying per-application 3D settings) to directly target Minecraft instead of applying its settings to all Java applications running on the system.

As an aside, the potential exists for the JVMInvoke source to be re-used in any other Java project to create an executable wrapper in the same way.

CreepWrap can be installed anywhere on a system, but may require some configuration depending on its location relative to the Minecraft Launcher (Minecraft.exe). If CreepWrap and the Minecraft Launcher are installed in the same directory, no further configuration is necessary, as CreepWrap will default to trying to find the Minecraft Launcher in its working directory.

To explicitly point CreepWrap to the Minecraft Launcher, simply create a shortcut to CreepWrap, and pass it the path to Minecraft.exe as an argument, for example:

C:\Path\To\CreepWrap.exe "C:\My Games\Minecraft.exe"

Note that CreepWrap requires the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package to be installed. Obviously, it also requires a Java Runtime Environment to be installed (currently, only Oracle's JRE is officially supported).

Currently, CreepWrap is known to successfully build using the MinGW-w64 toolchain (installed via Cygwin), as well as Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Express (built from the command line using MSBuild, although building from the IDE should also work).

Building with MinGW-w64 requires the creation of a Makefile.x86_64_mingw.local file containing a CXXFLAGS modification to add -I arguments pointing GCC to the location of your JDK's include directory.

To build a debug build, issue a make debug command. For a release build, make or make release will suffice.

Before building with MSVC++, copy the CreepWrap.JNIHeaderPath.example file to CreepWrap.JNIHeaderPath.props and edit the path to the JDK include directory as appropriate for your build environment.

To build with MSVC++, start up a Visual Studio Command Prompt, or use the similar command prompt from the Windows SDK. To build, run the following:

MSBuild /p:Platform=x64 /p:Configuration=Debug

Supported values for Configuration are Debug and Release. Supported values for Platform are Win32 (for 32-bit platforms) and x64.

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