Maven native plugin and JNI

[etiainen]

Hi everyone!
I'm in a bit of a problem here:
I have to make a maven project for native (jni & C) code.

I am using this plugin: http://mojo.codehaus.org/maven-nativ...gin/index.html

and trying to make this example build:

http://mojo.codehaus.org/maven-native/native-maven-plugin/examples/jni-dll.html

(the jni one in svn)

The profile is win32 and MSVC is the compiler provider.

I get the following error:

[ERROR] 

Maven encountered an error while looking up the following Mojo:
Group-Id: org.codehaus.mojo
Artifact-Id: native-maven-plugin
Version: 1.0-alpha-2
Mojo: compile
brought in via: Direct invocation

Referenced from project:
Group-Id: org.codehaus.mojo.natives.it.jni.win32
Artifact-Id: hello
Version: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
From file: \\Sfil0\UserData$\pjovanovic05\workspace\jni\native\win32\pom.xml
Reason: Unable to lookup component 'org.apache.maven.plugin.Mojo', it could not be started.
      role: org.apache.maven.plugin.Mojo
  roleHint: org.codehaus.mojo:native-maven-plugin:1.0-alpha-2:compile
classRealm: /plugins/org.codehaus.mojo:native-maven-plugin:1.0-alpha-2@48/thread:main

Root cause: Component descriptor cannot be found in the component repository: org.codehaus.mojo.natives.manager.CompilerManager [default] (lookup realm: ClassRealm[/plugins/org.codehaus.mojo:native-maven-plugin:1.0-alpha-2@48/thread:main, parent: ClassRealm[/projects/org.codehaus.mojo.natives.it.jni.win32:hello:1.0-SNAPSHOT/thread:main, parent: ClassRealm[plexus.core, parent: null]]]).
      role: org.codehaus.mojo.natives.manager.CompilerManager
  roleHint: default
classRealm: /plugins/org.codehaus.mojo:native-maven-plugin:1.0-alpha-2@48/thread:main

Anybody seen anything like this?

[JosAH]

Not knowing Maven the error diagnostic indicates to me that you haven't properly
installed Maven or forgot to set some (class)path variable for it. Check its
installation instructions. The error diagnostic indicates that it can't find one of its
own components.

kind regards,

Jos

[etiainen]

Yeah, it does look like that, but it's a plugin and maven is pretty much just a bunch of plugins doing stuff.
The installation of the plugin is automated and instructed by POM, and i've literally copied the example from the repository and it breaks there.
I'am trying stuff, but it just wont click.

Thanks anyway!

[etiainen]

Ok, so just in case anybody comes across this looking for an answer, I did it, and this is how:

in win32 pom, i've added -LD to <compilerStartO ptions> and i gave up on IDEs, just did it from console...
Also I've added user32.lib & advapi32.lib to linkerStartOpti on (like in the tutorial)
There may have been more changes on my part, but I can't remember all now, and I think these were the key ones.
At first it didn't go, but when I logged on a few hours later it worked without any change. Oh the joy!