incompatible plug-in warning

[Conrad P]

A new fruit ... I'm seeing this dialog when I compile my code. And I can't for the life of me see where I'm going wrong. This all used to work, and it works on Mac, but Windows is giving me trouble.

If I try one of the sample projects (in 401138 - the later one crashes) these load fine. My stuff gets complaints... Anyone know the magic words?

 

Conrad

[JBenghiat]

Is this only for the latest SDK version, or 2018 in general?  The version compatibility is defined by the macro SDK_VERSION

 

Your plugin also needs the following in ModuleMain:

extern "C" Sint32 GS_EXTERNAL_ENTRY plugin_module_ver() { return SDK_VERSION; }

 

[Conrad P]

Hi Joshua

 

Well I have some news on this. It seems to be caused by the libcurl library that I'm trying to squeeze into the Windows build. I haven't had time to fully investigate but I suspect there's a define in the libcurl headers that may be conflicting with our SDK_VERSION define. You get away from VS quirkiness and re-discover it in a new form. On the Mac libcurl is built in so using it to access web resources from within a plug-in is a breeze. Seems like Windows has it's own way of doing http requests so I've got some reading to do. One thing I can say is that trying compile libcurl and openssl for Windows has not been an easy ride.

 

Conrad

 

-- but hey, I'm just a Greenhorn... --

[JBenghiat]

I haven’t worked on this yet, but I’ve actually wondered if using the python engine would be easier for url requests. 

[Conrad P]

Well I've been there and done that. Python is ok and you can send and get JSON which translates beautifully into dictionaries. I'm using that technique to manage on online repository of device data for a year now. libcurl on the Mac was actually very easy indeed. Probably i just have to do it the MS way on Windows and that's all there is to it.