Re: maven-native-plugin Resource compiler

[dan tran <da...@gmail.com>]

Hi Robert,

First, please always direct your inquiry to user list so that others can
answer/benefit as well

Please file a JIRA, provide a patch to add .exe to all msvc executables, and
test against your build

Glad it works out for you

-Dan

On 9/12/06, Robert Phillips <rp...@princetonsoftech.com> wrote:
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>   Dan,
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>   Thanks for your work on the maven-native-plugin.  I'm working on a
> project that is using the plugin to compile a large set of C-language shared
> objects on Win32 and 4 different Unix variants.  Would it be possible for
> you to change MSVCResourceCompiler.java and MSVCMessageCompiler.java (and,
> presumably, ResourceCompilerConfiguration.java and
> MessageCompilerConfiguration.java) to obtain the resource compiler and
> message compiler executable names from configuration parameters?
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>   Our Unix compilation uses a product called MainWin from Mainsoft, which
> provides a Win32 environment on Unix systems (the gag reflex usually kicks
> in at this point).  The MSVC provider works almost perfectly in this
> environment, except that the executables called must have the .exe suffix
> appended.  With the linker and compiler, I can accomplish this task easily.
> However, the resource compiler is hard-coded to "rc", which exists in a
> MainWin environment and serves a purpose different than that served by
> "rc.exe".  A similar situation exists with respect to the message compiler.
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>   There are a number of ways around this problem, but I thought that I
> would try this one first for a couple of reasons.  First, if you incorporate
> this change into the distributed and maintained plugin, I am relieved of the
> need to ever have to think about it again.  Second, I can congratulate you
> on a piece of work that has saved me a good bit of time and effort.
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>   If you prefer not to make these changes, I understand, and I can resolve
> the problem in a less elegant way.  Thanks for your consideration, and
> thanks again for the plugin.
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> Best Regards,
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> Bob Phillips
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