diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d6112e45..302989ee 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -9,5 +9,7 @@
 /Models
 /Models/**.*
 
+/launcher/src/main.exe
+
 /Telephone-*.jar
 /hs_err_pid*
diff --git a/launcher/jdk.zip b/launcher/jdk.zip
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a1c15bc5
Binary files /dev/null and b/launcher/jdk.zip differ
diff --git a/launcher/src/main.c b/launcher/src/main.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..aff7be36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/launcher/src/main.c
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+#include<stdio.h>
+#include<stdlib.h>
+#include<string.h>
+#include<unistd.h>
+
+#define MAX_PATH_SIZE 250
+#define LOG_HOLDER_SIZE 500
+
+void logVar(char * message, char * var);
+
+int main(){
+	char currentWorkingDirectory[MAX_PATH_SIZE];
+	if(getcwd(currentWorkingDirectory,sizeof(currentWorkingDirectory)) != NULL){
+	} else {
+		printf("Failed to get current working directory!\n");
+		fflush(stdout);
+		return 1;
+	}
+	//printf("CWD: %s\n",currentWorkingDirectory);
+	//fflush(stdout);
+	//get java location
+	char javaPath[MAX_PATH_SIZE + 50];
+	strcpy(javaPath,currentWorkingDirectory);
+	strcat(javaPath,"\\jdk\\bin\\java.exe\0");
+	//get jar location
+	char jarPath[MAX_PATH_SIZE + 50];
+	strcpy(jarPath,currentWorkingDirectory);
+	strcat(jarPath,"\\Renderer.jar");
+	logVar("javaPath: ",javaPath);
+	logVar("jarPath:  ",jarPath);
+	printf("%s\n",jarPath);
+	fflush(stdout);
+	execlp(javaPath,"java","-jar",jarPath, (char *)NULL);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+
+char logHolder[LOG_HOLDER_SIZE];
+void logVar(char * message, char * var){
+	strcpy(logHolder,message);
+	strcat(logHolder,var);
+	printf("%s\n",logHolder);
+	fflush(stdout);
+}