I currently run a simple cli I wrote by calling: lein run my-cli-command arg --option
How can I call my command without needing to include lein run? This is what i'm after: my-cli-command arg --option
Do I need to convert it to an binary or executable and if so how?
As far as I know, there's no way to run just my-cli-command arg --option.
You can take lein out of the equation though by creating a Java archive:
lein uberjar
Then run the jar as you would any other:
java -jar target/my-cli-command-standalone.jar arg --option
uberjar will name the jar based on what you've called your project in project.clj, and will create a jar that relies on external dependencies, and one that doesn't (standalone).
Then, as @gary pointed out, you can stick the java - jar ... command in a .bat file, name it whatever you want, then run the bat directly. My bat-Fu is pretty weak, but there's likely a way to pass arguments to the bat and have them passed to the jar so you don't need to hard code the arguments.