Re: [Libvisual-devel] Writing a plugin

[Burkhard P. <pl...@ip...>]

Hi,

Tom Vincent Peters wrote
> Hello,
>
> I just joined this list to ask what i have to do to add a simple (actor)
> plugin to libvisual.
> I want to add support for my self-made 5^3 LedCube and two other (8^3,
> 10^3)
> cubes. Basically there'll be a 3D visualization of the cube and some code
> to
> synchronize the animation with the real cube. All this would be no problem
> to
> write if I knew how to add a plugin to libvisual.
> I took libvisual-0.4-dev on my Debian system and a self-compiled version
> of
> libvisual-plugins-0.4.0, to which I tried to add my plugin. I added my
> plugin-
> directory to plugins/actor/Makefile.am. This failed (ran --configure in
> the main
> directory, but plugin was not listed).
> What do I have to do to add a plugin properly?

If you add a directory, you must also list it in configure.ac and rerun
automake and autoconf.

Burkhard