Develop a plugin

dail · Nov 8, 2016, 12:48 PM

but the extension is .vcxproj can I have a project in extension .sln?

MSVC can create the .sln file. Not sure if there is a way to create it without MSVC.

The output is dynamic library it os roght?

If I understand you correctly then yes.

botman99 · Nov 8, 2016, 2:57 PM

You might want to try using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 community edition. It’s free…

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/releasenotes/vs2013-community-vs

William Newbery · Nov 12, 2016, 2:18 AM

I have been using Visual Studio 2015 without issue, which includes some C++ compiler and IDE improvements. https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/

MinGW should work as well if you really dont want to use the MS tools. You just need a standard DLL with the specified exports, nothing much of interest in the template project files. The template is just a guide/startpoint to copy, and the needed API files (plus ILexer.h if doing syntax highlighting) are on the main git repo.

GFdevelop · Nov 30, 2016, 9:17 PM

ok thanks, I will try to develop a plugin with gcc, are there particular arguments to pass to compiler?

gstavi · Dec 1, 2016, 6:09 AM

I compile my plugins with Microsoft compiler (e.g. Windows SDK) and cygwin makefiles.
I do have MSDEV for occasional debugging.
Nothing special about NPP plugins, just compile a DLL and provide the required include paths and libraries.

AdrianHHH · Dec 1, 2016, 9:18 AM

Kasper has done some great work on making plugins with Visual Studio and C#. See https://github.com/kbilsted/NotepadPlusPlusPluginPack.Net/releases
This should work with the Community editions of Visual Studio which is free.

GFdevelop · Dec 1, 2016, 3:22 PM

Hello, I have a problem with line 53 of file GoToLineDlg.cpp error is this:

GoToLineDlg.cpp.o:GoToLineDlg.cpp:(.text$ZN19DockingDlgInterface4initEP11HINSTANCE__P6HWND_[ZN19DockingDlgInterface4initEP11HINSTANCE__P6HWND_]+0x57): undefined reference to `__imp_PathFindFileNameA’
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:2: recipe for target ‘NppPluginDemo’ failed
mingw32-make: *** [NppPluginDemo] Error 1

Is there an alternative code to line 53?

dail · Dec 1, 2016, 3:36 PM

@GFdevelop

How have you been trying to compile it?

What have you tried so far to fix it?

Have you tried Google?

GFdevelop · Dec 7, 2016, 5:46 PM

I have found a way to compile the plugin template with g++, please test if work:

GFdevelop · Dec 7, 2016, 8:13 PM

Edit: new version without string errors, I have only tested unicode 32 bit, please test ansi 32 and 64 bit, and unicode 64 bit.

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