Managing DLL dependencies with Maven
I have a Java program with Maven managing its dependencies. One of those dependency is a JNI wrapper for another program. Maven takes care of the reference to the relevant JAR file, but I'm left messing around with the DLL file myself.
Is there a good way of having Maven handle the DLL as well? Ideally I would like to have the DLL loaded into our local repository like the JAR file.
Solution 1:
Did you try something like this:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.foo</groupId>
<artifactId>footron</artifactId>
<version>4.2</version>
<scope>runtime</scope>
<type>dll</type>
</dependency>
You can add them to maven's repository with something like this:
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=footron.dll -DgroupId=com.foo -DartifactId=footron -Dversion=4.2 -Dpackaging=dll -DgeneratePom=true
Haven't done this for DLLs but something like this should work.