Adding external plugins

[giuliadinardo1]

Hi!
I am trying to add an external plugin to my sofa environment (Visco-Elasticity). I have downloaded the SOFA binaries (v24.06.00) for Windows, and I tried to follow the online instructions (Out-of-tree build), but I am still a bit confused on how to add the external plugins. So far I have created a folder called "ext_plugin_repo" and placed the SofaViscoElastic folder in it, and also made a CMakeLists.txt file which looks like this:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.22)

find_package(SofaFramework)

sofa_add_subdirectory(SofaViscoElastic-main/  SofaViscoElastic VERSION 1.0)

The next step in the online tutorial is to use Cmake to configure it. I have never used Cmake before and am not sure exactly how to do this. What do I set as "Where to build the binaries" in the Cmake GUI and where can I find CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH? I would really appreciate a step by step explanation on how to complete this step.

Thank you very much in advance!

[StudySoftSCU]

There was a video that taught you how to add an external plugin by using cmake. just search sofa add external plugin on youtube. Hope your question is done

[hugtalbot]

Thanks A LOT @StudySoftSCU for assisting on the forum! 👍 👍 👍
My CMakeLists looks like this :

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12)

sofa_add_subdirectory(plugin SofaViscoElastic SofaViscoElastic)

In the CMahe-GUI you can specify the path to this CMakeLists in the variable SOFA_EXTERNAL_DIRECTORIES

Hope this helps @giuliadinardo1

[giuliadinardo1]

Yes, thank you! I think I figured it out.

Thanks for all the help