Development plugin in Visual Studio 2013

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Hello
I am interested in the development of plugin in Visual Studio 2013. All that I was able to find, this is an example of the project Welo World, but I did not find information how to run the plugin. I copied the contents of the Debug (1.8) in a directory (…\Plugins\SUEX_HelloWorld) but at the time you run SketchUp, nothing happens. It may be necessary to connect manifest the plugin. Any help is appreciated.
Thank you

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The project is already set up to load the C extension built. When you run either Debug/Release (1.8/2.0) it launches SketchUp and executes the corresponding rb file in the Ruby directory of the project: ruby-c-extension-examples/Ruby at main · SketchUp/ruby-c-extension-examples · GitHub

This assumes the path to SketchUp is the default installation path. (And probably version 2014). If you use another version you must change this in the project’s Debugger settings.

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Hi,
I have Win x 64 platform, and I get the error when you run the “Windows Debugger Lical”. The compiler has determined that the application is not available. I changed the configuration of the project on the “Platform x64”, but still get a compilation error. One of the errors:

Warning 3 warning C4273: ‘atanh’ : inconsistent dll linkage e:\opensource\ruby-c-extension-examples\thirdparty\include\ruby\1.8\win32\missing.h 31 1 SUEX_HelloWorld

Error 14 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol rb_str_new2 referenced in function “unsigned long __cdecl GetRubyInterface(char const *)” (?GetRubyInterface@@YAKPEBD@Z) E:\OpenSource\ruby-c-extension-examples\Hello World\RubyUtils.obj SUEX_HelloWorld

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@bugra - got any idea what this might be?

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Using SketchUpKDK, I can compile the package with the extension “rbs”?

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No - RBS files are scrambled RB files. You need to use the scrambler tool for that:
http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/tutorial_distributing

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That is, I will not be able to build a plugin for SketchUp application using SketchUpSDK?

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Well, I can use the IronRuby extension for Visual Studio that would build a plugin with the RBS?

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SketchUp doesn’t use IronRuby. I uses the normal Ruby interpreter.

You might want to look at our Ruby C++ Extension code example:

That lets you develop in C++ and we’ve set up example Visual Studio and Xcode proejcts.

The RBS format is simply to scramble RB files.

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No - the C API is for reading and writing SKP files. If you want to create a SketchUp extension you need to use the Ruby API.

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You are referring to is (How to set up an IDE for debugging Ruby extensions in SketchUp · SketchUp/sketchup-ruby-debugger Wiki · GitHub)?

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That is an example project of creating a C/C++ Ruby Extension for within SketchUp.

But I was referring to the Ruby API itself: Homepage | SketchUp Developer
You can write the whole thing in Ruby.

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But I do not find the plugin compilation method (.RBS). Could you give a link to the section compiling? Thank you

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If I understood you correctly, the project sketchup-ruby-debugger shows the possibility of developing plugins on C++?

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Found (http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/utilities)

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That’s creating C/C++ extensions to Ruby - so you’d still be using out Ruby API, but using Ruby’s C interface.

That’s the one.

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Thanks for the support.

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Hi,
Can I use loader.rb as a manifesto for the start of the module written in C ++ language?

Thanks

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Can you elaborate what you mean by this?

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I meant an extension method to connect DLL

loader = File.join( PATH, 'Extension.dll' )