Thanks for your answers! Where do you see most of the problems in including native compilers? I means, in general Maven already supports a highly abstract object model that does not have much in common with Java. So why is it complicated to integrate another compiler?
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Brett Randall [mailto:javabr...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. August 2009 02:11 An: Maven Users List Betreff: Re: Maven for Non-Java Projects 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
