Re: Is Apache Ant an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Java, C, and C++ programming languages?

Dominique Devienne <[email protected]> Thu, 28 Jul 2022 12:38:16 +0200
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On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 12:04 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
> You should be able to include C- and C++ Stuff via <exec> or some external tasks.

E.g. http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/cpptasks/index.html
or https://github.com/timpokorny/cpptask

I've used the former ages ago, and the learning curve was a little steep,
but it worked out really well in the end. FWIW.

Of course, building C/C++ with Ant and CppTasks only makes sense if
you are primarily a Java shop with some JNI/JNA/etc... native libs
that need building.

There are many other build systems for mostly C/C++ shops instead
(CMake, Bazel, Meson, etc...). --DD