On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:50 PM, David Hoffer <dhoff...@gmail.com> wrote:

> We are currently using it for flex in addition to java, for flex the builds
> work fine the only negative is the plugins that allow direct IDE
> integration
> are not as complete as they are for Java.
>
> Regarding C/C++ I have tried to use this in the past, I think I was using
> the nar plugin but can't be sure.  There were a couple of road-blocking
> bugs/missing-features that prevented us from using maven for these types of
> projects.  If I recall correctly the issues were that it did not have
> support for the new universal OSX binaries and on Windows you couldn't
> specify the compiler version.  I.e. it would use whatever MSVC version it
> found on the system, and we had to support multiple versions (this is
> probably true on other platforms as well).  You could probably modify the
> plugins when you find issues like these but I didn't go down that path.
> (This was a couple+ years ago so if these are kept current they may be
> fixed
> by now.)
>
> -Dave
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Jan Wedel <jan.we...@ettex.de> wrote:
>
> > Hi there!
> >
> > I already searched google for some help but it seems that it's not
> > really common to use Maven for non-Java projects.
> >
> > However, we plan to be platform and language-independent by supporting
> > e.g. embedded Java, C, C++ and Python. The question is if it is feasible
> > to use Maven for all projects?
> > I found the maven-native-plugin and maven-nar-plugin but I'm not really
> > sure if it supports everything that's needed. We are looking for a
> > server-based central repository maintaining different projects and
> > libraries in various languages.
> >
> > Can anybody who uses or used any of these or other plug-ins to support
> > non-Java projects please respond with some comments, hints, suggestions,
> > pro and cons etc. that might be helpful?
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> >
> > Jan
> >
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I haven't yet had much joy with Maven-plugins for building Windows-native
DLLs from C++ using the MSVC compiler, so if anyone would like to nominate
their favorite plugin there.  native-mave-plugin seems out-of date or not
maintained for latest MSVC compiler versions?

Brett

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