How to add a plugin under the .exe SOFA environment

[iiianmeng]

Hi! I installed the .exe SOFA didn't build it from src files. Is it possible for me to add external plugin using cmake under this version of SOFA?
Thx a lot!

[hugtalbot]

Hi @iiianmeng

Yes it is. All you need is to have your plugin to compile in a repository and follow the usual compilation steps:

• configure your plugin
• configuration will fail due to missing reference to SOFA, add the SOFA_Release/lib/cmake path to a new variable CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
• reconfigure
• compile

Then you will be able to import the dll in the SOFA PluginManager (in the Edit menu of the GUI) and use the various codes of the plugin. The documentation is available here.

Hope this helps.

[iiianmeng]

Thanks a lot！ I tried and it did work.