Developing Plugins

[Jimmy2775]

Just the same way, if you distribute only binaries (as your use of MSVC might suggest), they will be compiled on your box and plugins and app will always have the same build key...

Thanks for the info. My concern is with the fact that the app will be compiled on my machine, but it is possible for third-party developers to compile their own plugins for the app. I am trying to determine how much if a problem this could be if they're using a different compiler. Ideally I'd like to be able to provide documentation listing which compilers they could use to create compatible plugins. Is this something that is known, or do I have to try different compilers and see what works and what doesn't?

[fullmetalcoder]

Thanks for the info. My concern is with the fact that the app will be compiled on my machine, but it is possible for third-party developers to compile their own plugins for the app. I am trying to determine how much if a problem this could be if they're using a different compiler. Ideally I'd like to be able to provide documentation listing which compilers they could use to create compatible plugins. Is this something that is known, or do I have to try different compilers and see what works and what doesn't?

Well basically the build platform already brings restriction and I think that, except some exceptions, binaries build on the same platform should be compatible especially if the use of external libraries (apart from Qt) is reduced...

See :

For example I was able to load a plugin built with gcc from an executable built with MSVC 8.

[Jimmy2775]

Okay - I guess that makes sense. Let's see if I understand this right - If all my Windows code is compiled with MSVC8, most other Windows compilers should be able to compile compatible plugins, and likewise if I use Intel's C++ compiler for Mac, most other Mac compilers should create compatible plugins. If that's the case then that's good enough for me.

Thanks fullmetalcoder and Methedrine for your help.

Jimmy