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+<!--
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Paul Schaub <info@pgpainless.org>
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+SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+-->
+
+# Build PGPainless
+
+There are a number of different artifacts that can be built from the PGPainless source code:
+
+## `pgpainless-cli/build/libs/pgpainless-cli-X.Y.Z-all.jar`
+
+This is a fat jar, built using the Shadow plugin.
+It bundles all necessary dependencies required by the CLI application at runtime.
+This artifact will be produced by the `gradle shadowJar` task, which is run as part of the `gradle assemble` task.
+
+## `pgpainless-cli/build/native/nativeCompile/pgpainless-cli`
+
+This is a native image, that can be built using GraalVM which compared to the executable jar file above
+offers greatly improved performance by skipping the JVM startup overhead.
+
+To build this image, you need to run `gradle nativeCompile` using a GraalVM-enabled Java SDK.