Can I tailor a maven build based on platform?

Question

Specifically, I run the launch4j-maven-plugin plugin to generate me an .exe file. This only works on Windows, so I was wondering if I could \'opt-o

Answer 1

You can wrap that plugin under separate build profile and just enable that profile on the build that you want

For example:

<project>
  ...
<profile>
<id>generate-exe</id>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <!_- your plugin configuration -->
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
</profile>
  ...
</project>

Now pass parameter while launching maven to specify profile

For example:

mvn clean install -Pgenerate-exe