Debug DLLs of Plugins?

Chris_with_a_Gun · Post by **Chris_with_a_Gun** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:36 pm

I'm looking for a way to either rename the Plugin in debug mode (for example "Plugin_CgProgramManager_d.dll") or to change the plugin-path in debug mode to another directory (for example './plugins/debug). Is there a way to achieve either one of these?

thanks alot

Post by **_mental_** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:47 pm

AFAIK OGRE isn't setup to do this, but it should be possible. At the moment you should be maintaining separate debug and release plugins.cfg file, you could specify the individual names in each. You'd also have to modify the build scripts slightly so that the debug versions have a _d.

Post by **sinbad** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:17 pm

Just supply a different name for the plugins file in debug mode. Root::intialise takes it as a parameter, a simple #if _DEBUG in your code will do it.

Post by **:wumpus:** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:35 pm

I don't really see why you would want to use a different name in debug mode. I'd went with the "another directory" way in all my projects. You can do this in two ways:

- Two plugin.cfgs; one in your release bin directory, one in your debug bin directory. Make the executable load the .cfg from the path it is in. This has the advantage of being easy to do, but might not be the nicest solution.

- Don't use a .cfg at all but manually use the loadPlugin method on Root. You can than use a #ifdef NDEBUG to see where to load the plugins from.