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| Creating Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Project For Maya Plug-in | |
Since we have to use Microsoft Visual Studio in order to compile plug-ins for Maya on Windows platform we need to create project first. This step can be boring but nevertheless it needs to be done. You can follow the steps I have written below to create your Visual Studio project.
When you complete creation of the project you will be able to compile your plug-ins for x86 platform and Maya 2011. You can change configurations to compile your projects for x64 plarform as well as different Maya versions. Whenever I have time I will create a wizards so we can get ridd of this chore work. Long live makefile! |
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1. Go to File -> New -> Project. |
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2. Select “Visual C++” on the right hand side then select “Win32” project. Name your project and click “OK”. |
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3. Do not click "Finish", click next to edit application settings. Select “DLL” under “Application type” and “Empty project” under “Additional options”. |
4. Create or add header and cpp files. |
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5. Right click project in “Solution Explorer” and choose “Properties”. |
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6. Select “All Configurations” under “Configurations” menu. Change “Target Extension” to “.mll”. |
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7. Go to C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories. Add include directory of Maya installation. I keep include directory in different location but usual path would be;
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2011\include |
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8. Go to - C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition. Add following lines.
WIN32 |
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9. Go to C/C++ -> Command Line. Add following line.
/GR /GS /Gm /EHac /ZI /I "." /D "WIN32" /D "_DEBUG" /RTC1 /c |
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10. Got o Linker -> General -> Additional Library Directories. Add lib directory of Maya installation. I keep lib directory in different location but usual path would be;
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2011\lib |
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11. Go to Linker -> Input -> Additional Dependencies. Add following libraries. Add other libraries as required.
Foundation.lib |
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12. Go to Linker -> Command Line -> Additional Options. Add following line.
/subsystem:windows /dll /incremental:yes /debug /machine:I386 /export:initializePlugin /export:uninitializePlugin |
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