The NAR plugin for Maven allows you to compile native code (C++, C and
Fortran) on a number of different architectures (Linux, Windows, MacOSX,
Solaris, FreeBSD, ...) and with a number of different compilers/linkers
(g++, Microsoft Visual C++, CC, ...) The output produced is wrapped up
in Native ARchive files (.nar) some of which are machine independent
(-noarch), while others are machine specific and thus depend on a
combination of machine architecture(A), operating-system(O) and
linker(L) identified as AOL. These nar files can be installed in the
local Maven repository and deployed to a standard Maven (web) server,
using the standard maven-install-plugin and maven-deploy-plugin.
This is the official maven-nar-plugin project, renamed to nar-maven-plugin as per Apache Maven's requirements.
Yes.
Yes.