use the gradle 'application' plug-in to create the distribution.

Author: aadrian

README.md

@@ -44,13 +44,21 @@ Download
 [markdown-writer-fx-0.9.zip](https://github.com/JFormDesigner/markdown-writer-fx/releases/download/0.9/markdown-writer-fx-0.9.zip)
 and extract it to any folder.
 
-Double-click `markdown-writer-fx.jar` to start *Markdown Writer FX*.
+Run: 
+ - for Windows, ```bin/markdown-writer-fx.bat``` to start *Markdown Writer FX*
+ - and for Unix systems ```./bin/markdown-writer-fx.sh``` to start *Markdown Writer FX*
 
-If this does not work, try following command in a terminal window:
+from the project folder.
 
+Building
+-------
+Prerequisites are Java 8 and Gradle >= 3.5 in order to build *Markdown Writer FX* form sources.
+ - get the source, e.g. by cloning the official repo with: 
+ ```bash
+ git clone https://github.com/JFormDesigner/markdown-writer-fx.git
 ```
-java -jar markdown-writer-fx.jar
-```
+ - run ```gradle assembleDist``` to create the distribution in the ```$project/build/distributions/``` folder.  
+
 
 Changes
 -------

build.gradle

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 version = '0.9'
 
 apply plugin: 'java'
-apply plugin: 'java-library-distribution'
+apply plugin: 'application'
 
 repositories {
 	jcenter()
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ dependencies {
 sourceCompatibility = 1.8
 targetCompatibility = 1.8
 
+mainClassName = 'org.markdownwriterfx.MarkdownWriterFXApp'
+
 // for RichTextFX submodule
 sourceSets {
 	main.java.srcDirs      = ['src/main/java',      'RichTextFX/richtextfx/src/main/java', 'Flowless/src/main/java']
@@ -64,7 +66,7 @@ sourceSets {
 jar {
 	manifest {
 		attributes( 'Main-Class': 'org.markdownwriterfx.MarkdownWriterFXApp',
-					'Class-Path': configurations.compile.collect { 'lib/' + it.getName() }.join(' '),
+					'Class-Path': configurations.compile.collect { it.getName() }.join(' '),
 					'Implementation-Version': version
 		)
 	}