adrianboimvaser/m2e-native-library-configurator

Maven Native Library Location Configurator for m2e

This is a m2e project configurator that reads the java.library.path property from the <argLine> maven-surefire-plugin configuration and sets the native library location property of the Maven Dependencies classpath container.

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This is how you would configure maven-surefire-plugin:

<plugin>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
  <configuration>
    <argLine>-Djava.library.path="${project.build.directory}/natives"</argLine>
  </configuration>
</plugin>

You would copy some dlls to ${project.build.directory}/natives using the copygoal of maven-dependency-plugin:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <phase>initialize</phase>
      <goals>
        <goal>copy</goal>
      </goals>
      <configuration>
        <stripVersion>true</stripVersion>
        <artifactItems>
          <artifactItem>
            <groupId>some.group.id</groupId>
            <artifactId>some-artifact-id</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
            <type>dll</type>
            <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/natives</outputDirectory>
            <destFileName>dllname.dll</destFileName>
          </artifactItem>
        </artifactItems>
      </configuration>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>

... or by some other mean.