use local-jars with clojure lein

clojoure-local-jars.md

Rationale:

This is a quick guide for using local jars in #clojure.

create project with lein

lein new foo
cd foo

Say I have a random JAR file that is not available in any repository:

touch README.md
jar cf bar.jar README.md

mkdir repo

mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=local -DartifactId=bar \
  -Dversion=1.0.0 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=bar.jar \
  -Durl=file:repo
  
  And I write my project.clj like this:

(defproject foo "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"
  :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.4.0"]
                 [local/bar "1.0.0"]]
  :repositories {"project" "file:repo"})

test with:

lein deps

References:

1. historic one: https://gist.github.com/stuartsierra/3062743

2. an example: https://github.com/thehammer/jukebox2