Installing Plug-ins
In comparison to the build process, plug-in installation is very simple. Installing a plug-in is accomplished by copying the compiled plug-in module to <IDADIR>/plugins. Note that Windows systems do not allow an executable file that is in use to be overwritten. So to install a plug-in on a Windows system, you must ensure that any previous version of the plug-in has been unloaded from IDA. Depending on the plug-in loading options, a plug-in may be unloaded when a database is closed. However, plug-ins that have the PLUGIN_FIX flag set may require IDA to be shut down entirely before the new plug-in can be copied to <IDADIR>/plugins.
On Linux and OS X systems, executable files can be overwritten while they are in use, so you do ...
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