Developing plugins with other languages.

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Permanently deleted user

September 05, 2019 13:02

Hello

This article says it is possible to create plugins using other languages. How can I create plugin with another language, e.g. C# ?

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  Permanently deleted user

  September 06, 2019 19:50

  Hi Pavel!

  To be able to implement a plugin in a language other than C/C++, you need to investigate which means of integration with C/C++ does that language provide.
  
  Basically, you have to learn how to create a dynamic library (.dll for Windows, .so for Linux) using that language.

  If the language provides only C integration rather than C++ (most likely it will be the case), you have to manually implement the mapping from our C++ headers to plain C (substituting each class with virtual functions with a C structure with function pointers), and then implement the plugin's main exported function so that it returns a pointer to a structure with function pointers inside.

  Specifically for C#, the following approach may help: implement the Plugin dynamic library in Managed C++ (using the SDK headers directly), and in this implementation call C# modules to perform the job.

  Hope that helps, and looking forward to hearing from you should further questions arise.

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