There are a few housekeeping tasks to do before you get started developing your plugin.

A python script, project_setup.py, is provided which automates the steps in the section below (requires Python 3.12+)*. To run the script:

1. Run cd .\CLibSFPluginTemplate\
2. Run py .\project_setup.py
3. Enter your project name (in CamelCase)

*NOTE: If you're using Python 3.11 or below, change onexc=onexc to onerror=onexc in lines 31 and 33 in project_setup.py

1. Clone the repository
2. Set the "name" and "version-semver" fields in vcpkg.json
3. Update the "baseline" entries to the latest commits in both registries in vcpkg.json
   • Follow the links in the "repository" fields and copy-paste the hash of the latest commit in each repository
4. Set the name and version of your plugin in CMakeLists.txt
5. Change "AuthorName" in CMakeLists.txt to your name
6. Set the name of contrib/Config/PluginName.ini to the name of your plugin
7. Edit the ini.LoadFile() call in src/Settings.cpp to load the renamed ini from step 6

• Visual Studio should prompt you to generate a CMake cache. Click on Generate and wait
• One the CMake cache is generated, build your project
• The .dll and .pdb files will be placed in contrib\PluginRelease or contrib\PluginDebug depending on your build configuration

• Two build configs are provided:
  • Release: Optimized release build, produces small and fast DLLs with associated PDBs
  • Debug: Debug build, produces DLLs and PDBs with full debug info, allowing the use of an interactive debugger

• CMake v3.27+
• vcpkg v2023.08.09+
  • Create a new Windows environment variable called VCPKG_ROOT which points to your vcpkg install directory
• Visual Studio 2022 with C++ workload
• LLVM v17.0.0+ (not really a dependency but nice to have)