As the question states is there a nice way to use dependencies based on the platform architecture while building maven artefacts. I know about profiles and how to use them. For this special purpose i dont want to incorporate them into my build.
The problem in detail could be described as follows:
- Multi module maven project
- Continous integration and people on the project use evenly distributed platform architectures
- Dependency to native system library
Solutions which i do not want to use in the settings:
- No dependency redundancy
- No maven profiles (or at least maven profiles which are automatically chosen by platform architecture)
As an example:
Person1
- (using linux i686) builds project
- x86 libaries are bundled to every subproject and the resulting artefacts are being build
Person2
- (using win32) builds project
- 32 bit librariers are bundled as above
Continous integration
- is running like the production environment on linux amd64
- integrate amd64 libraries
Edit about Profiles
I know that profiles are one solution to do this. But what i want to achieve is that you checkout your project from some random source version control and build a project with native libraries out of the box without doing anything (as long as the platform meets the requirement of the configured ones).
I do not want to configure these profile settings nor i want to run a specific target explicitally. If there is such thing with profiles i would like to see an example which determines automatically the platform architecture and runs a target. IF there is one without profiles i would prefer it because it is much less complex while having different existent combinations of profiles(including tests and other usecases).
Having solely profiles feels a little bloated to me and manual efforts are required.
I hope someone has a neat suggestion because im somehow stuck on this.