where to find downloaded library of sbt?

Question

Where does sbt put the downloaded jar? I'm trying to ask sbt to download all dependencies and put them under lib/ directory so I can use them with the ScalaIDE, however after I ran sbt compile successfully I don't know where to find these downloaded .jars

Answer 1

All new SBT versions (after 0.7.x) by default put the downloaded JARS into the .ivy2 directory in your home directory.

If you are using Linux, this is usually /home/<username>/.ivy2/cache.

If you are using Windows, this is usually c:\Users\<username>\.ivy2\cache.

EDIT:

Here's an example from one of my projects, in which I define an SBT task that copies the dependencies into the target folder. You can place this code into your project/Build.scala project definition file. You should have something like this in your project definition file (more info at www.scala-sbt.org):

import sbt._ import Keys._ import Process._  object MyProjectBuild extends Build { 

The following code copies all your libraries to a deploy/libz subdirectory, by defining a deploy task that captures your program artifact and all its classpath dependencies:

val deployKey = TaskKey[Unit](   "deploy",   "Deploys the project in the `deploy` subdirectory." )  val deployTask = deployKey <<= (artifactPath in (Compile, packageBin), dependencyClasspath in Compile) map {   (artifact, classpath) =>   val deploydir = new File("deploy")   val libzdir = new File("deploy%slib".format(File.separator))    // clean old subdirectory   deploydir.delete()    // create subdirectory structure   deploydir.mkdir()   libzdir.mkdir()    // copy deps and artifacts   val fullcp = classpath.map(_.data) :+ artifact   def lastName(file: File) = if (file.isFile) file.getName else file.getParentFile.getParentFile.getParentFile.getName   for (file <- fullcp) {     println("Copying: " + file + "; lastName: " + lastName(file))     if (file.isFile) IO.copyFile(file, (libzdir / lastName(file)).asFile);     else IO.copyDirectory(file, (libzdir / lastName(file)))   } } dependsOn (packageBin in Compile)