How do I download the Gson library?

github, gson, jar, zip

Solution

First you need to clone the repository locally on your computer:

git clone https://github.com/google/gson

Then you go inside the project folder ./gson and you create the jar file running:

mvn package

Of course to do this you need to have maven installed, if you are under osx you can install it running

brew install maven

Otherwise you can look for the installation for your system on the maven official website

After running mvn package the jar file will be in ./gson/gson/target/gson-2.7.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

Problem

Should be simple question. When I go to https://github.com/google/gson I can only download the library as a zip folder as opposed to a jar file. Where can I get the jar file?

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