Setup Notes 

Some notes on how to set up your sbt script.

Do not put sbt-launch.jar on your classpath. 

Do not put sbt-launch.jar in your $SCALA_HOME/lib directory, your project’s lib directory, or anywhere it will be put on a classpath. It isn’t a library.

Terminal encoding 

The character encoding used by your terminal may differ from Java’s default encoding for your platform. In this case, you will need to add the option -Dfile.encoding=<encoding> in your sbt script to set the encoding, which might look like:

java -Dfile.encoding=UTF8

JVM heap, permgen, and stack sizes 

If you find yourself running out of permgen space or your workstation is low on memory, adjust the JVM configuration as you would for any application. For example a common set of memory-related options is:

java -Xmx1536M -Xss1M -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled -XX:MaxPermSize=256m

Boot directory 

sbt-launch.jar is just a bootstrap; the actual meat of sbt, and the Scala compiler and standard library, are downloaded to the shared directory $HOME/.sbt/boot/.

To change the location of this directory, set the sbt.boot.directory system property in your sbt script. A relative path will be resolved against the current working directory, which can be useful if you want to avoid sharing the boot directory between projects. For example, the following uses the pre-0.11 style of putting the boot directory in project/boot/:

java -Dsbt.boot.directory=project/boot/

HTTP/HTTPS/FTP Proxy 

On Unix, sbt will pick up any HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP proxy settings from the standard http_proxy, https_proxy, and ftp_proxy environment variables. If you are behind a proxy requiring authentication, your sbt script must also pass flags to set the http.proxyUser and http.proxyPassword properties for HTTP, ftp.proxyUser and ftp.proxyPassword properties for FTP, or https.proxyUser and https.proxyPassword properties for HTTPS.

For example,

java -Dhttp.proxyUser=username -Dhttp.proxyPassword=mypassword

On Windows, your script should set properties for proxy host, port, and if applicable, username and password. For example, for HTTP:

java -Dhttp.proxyHost=myproxy -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080 -Dhttp.proxyUser=username -Dhttp.proxyPassword=mypassword

Replace http with https or ftp in the above command line to configure HTTPS or FTP.