Out-of-tree build with maven. Is it possible?

Question

I start learning packaging for several distros (currently Cygwin and Debian).

They have requirement to build system to allow out-of-tree build (syno

Answer 1

You could do like this to get it in your current working directory:

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    ${project.artifactId}-${project.version}

    
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        ${user.dir}
    

    
        ${buildDir}
    

Then you can issue

mvn -f my-app/pom.xml compile

And it will give you your classes in the current working directory.

And easily change to another output directory:

mvn -f my-app/pom.xml -DbuildDir=/tmp/build compile