Btw, why is the code from NativeLoader not reused in nativeLoaderAnnotationMacro?

@sideeffffect that's a great question, the answer is - to make macro annotation a zero dependency case. The way it works: @ compile time the code generated by the nativeLoaderAnnotationMacro is inserted into the body of the class or object.
To use macro annotation, it's enough to have sbt-jni-core as a provided dependency.

However, this is not possible in Scala 3 (no annotations), that's why I implemented this syntax which is close to the original ease of the annotation usage, but requires to have a dependency on the sbt-jni-core project.

See https://github.com/sbt/sbt-jni/blob/main/plugin/src/sbt-test/sbt-jni/simple-syntax/build.sbt#L8

But the code in both seems awfully similar. How much opportunity for code reuse/sharing do you think there is?

@sideeffffect I don't think there is, we could try to think of smth in Scala 2.x I guess, but def macros also requires a dependency (I checked) 🤷

As time goes we are just going to drop macro annotation / replace it with some future Scala 3 annotations (if there would be any).

I'd like to suggest to keep this old code "as is", just in case it is still useful for users.

OK, let's merge this.
Could you make a release after merge, so that I can use this right away, please?

@sideeffffect shipped https://github.com/sbt/sbt-jni/actions/runs/1075263499 🚀