Plugin Architecture

[wysota]

You can export the engine to a separate library and link each plugin against the library. Or you can place the engine in the main application and have a pointer to it somewhere so that plugins can take it and use it. It depends whether you want each plugin to have a separate engine or if they can all share a single instance of it.

[jtaylor108]

Many thanks for such a prompt reply

Using VS2005, I'm building the engine as a library (a '.lib' static library file) and the app and plugins are both linking against this. I would like the app and plugins to share a single instance of the engine, but this doesn't seem to be happening. However, the plan now is to rewrite the engine as a dll so I'll see how that works once it's been done.

Again, many thanks for the help - it's much appreciated.

Cheers,

jt