Building Your Plug-ins
On Windows, plug-ins are valid DLL files (that happen to use a .plw or .p64 extension), while on Linux and Mac, a plug-in is a valid shared object file (that uses a .plx/.plx64 or .pmc/.pmc64 extension, respectively). Building plug-ins can be a tricky matter, because you must get all of the build settings correct or the build process is almost certain to fail. The SDK contains a number of sample plug-ins, each containing its own makefile. The makefiles were all created with Borland’s build tools for Windows in mind. This poses some challenges when you wish to build with a different tool chain or on a different platform. The install_xxx.txt files included with the SDK discuss the use of <SDKDIR>/bin/idamake.pl to build plug-ins ...
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