Building C++ Plugin

[paul.abrams]

Ok so first before i get into this honestly kudos to unigine team on the documentation so far it's better than most i've seen.  But am a bit of a newb with cmake despite having tons of years of experience with C++.  And am stuck on something i assume is either an error or something that should've been put in the plugin creation documentation here:  https://developer.unigine.com/en/docs/2.13/editor2/extensions/custom_plugin?rlang=cpp

Well while building the project there's at least a couple path variables i need to set.  One called Engine_INCLUDE_DIR and another called Engine_LIBRARY.  I've already set Engine_INCLUDE_DIR through cmake GUI and don't see an option to set the other as can be seen in this image.  Is this simple enough a fix i should just spend a week or so learning CMake from the ground up?  Or is there something missing in the docs?  Or is this perhaps a bug of some sort?  Thank you for taking the time to read and potentially helping me get through this ^-^  Am helping design a plugin that'll hopefully bring more people to the community and love the potential this engine has.

[christian.wolf2]

Hi paul,

don't give up, I have experienced that cmake seems to be a little bit frustrating to work on in Windows. I recognized in the past

that CMAKE doesn't always override your custom setup, even if ENVIRONMENT and PATH-variables are set. So what you can first try is to set the engines include-dir manually and see if the problem could be solved. If not, please post your CMAKEList.txt file here, so I and others may have a look.

Best

Christian

[sinbizkit]

@paul.abrams

You shouldn't set this variables manually, they are computed and presented by FindEngine.cmake (it is used by cmake's `find_package` function internally) module file - the module expects that your plugin project file layout is correct according to the documentation.

The error you get means that some engine's binary files are missing in `bin/lib` dirs.

You can read more about `find_package` here.