Maven build failure

[ivanhjc]

While building on Windows it gives the error message:

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[WARNING] 
[WARNING] Some problems were encountered while building the effective model for mapr.com:kafka-examples:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT
[WARNING] 'build.plugins.plugin.version' for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin is missing. @ line 36, column 21
[WARNING] 
[WARNING] It is highly recommended to fix these problems because they threaten the stability of your build.
[WARNING] 
[WARNING] For this reason, future Maven versions might no longer support building such malformed projects.
[WARNING] 
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[INFO] Building kafka-examples 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.6:resources (default-resources) @ kafka-examples ---
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (UTF-8 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] Copying 2 resources
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile (default-compile) @ kafka-examples ---
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.6:testResources (default-testResources) @ kafka-examples ---
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (UTF-8 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory E:\Workspace\Intellij\kafka-sample-programs\src\test\resources
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:testCompile (default-testCompile) @ kafka-examples ---
[INFO] No sources to compile
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.12.4:test (default-test) @ kafka-examples ---
[INFO] No tests to run.
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-jar-plugin:2.4:jar (default-jar) @ kafka-examples ---
[INFO] Building jar: E:\Workspace\Intellij\kafka-sample-programs\target\kafka-examples-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-assembly-plugin:2.4:single (make-assembly) @ kafka-examples ---
[INFO] Building jar: E:\Workspace\Intellij\kafka-sample-programs\target\kafka-examples-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- really-executable-jar-maven-plugin:1.1.0:really-executable-jar (default) @ kafka-examples ---
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[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
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[INFO] Total time: 2.638 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2017-06-21T11:24:28+08:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 14M/338M
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[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.skife.maven:really-executable-jar-maven-plugin:1.1.0:really-executable-jar (default) on project kafka-examples: FAILURE! FAILURE!
[ERROR] Cannot run program "chmod": CreateProcess error=2, the system cannot find the file specified.
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException

[SondrePadoy]

Issue is solved by installing cygwin64 and adding the path to chmod in the system variable. Default location for chmod in cygwin64 is C:\cygwin64\bin. See http://javaprotlib.sourceforge.net/packages/io/howtofixhadoop.html