Is the maven-native-plugin widely used to build C++ projects using maven?

Question

It\'s been a little while since I did C++ development professionally and I\'d like to get caught up on what the current state of C++ development is in a number of areas. Most o

Answer 1

In my experience, the C++ community still hasn't standardised on a common build tool. While the GNU autotools (and GNU make) are still popular for Open Source projects, other options include SCons, CMake, makepp and bjam/jam.

Personally, I would only use Maven for a project that's mainly written in Java with a small JNI part.