OpenFX Plugin Development

[Manuel Hüttel]

Hello,


i want to start develop my own OpenFX Plugin, but i am struggling with building my Development Enviroment and workflow.

• currently i use Visual Studio 2017 with the Visual Studio 2015 (v140)  Toolchain for compiling

• Plugins are compiling correctly

•  But for easier development and bug finding i would like to use the VS Debugger
• So i tried to attach natron-bin.exe and natron.exe to my debugger, but this didn't work
• with resolve it worked this way

1. so wich setup and workflow would you recommend?
2. where can i find the console output made with
   std:cout
   printf()
   OFX:log
   
   
   
   

thank you very much for your help

Manu

[frederic.devernay]

Manu,

If you launch natron from the command-line, you should see the messages there.

OFX::log() logs by default to a file names ofxTestLog.txt, which may be located next to natron.exe or in the plugins dir, I don't remember. Look for that file.

I don't have a windows machine, so I can't help you more.

Natron is built with MSYS/MINGW, and I don't know if the VS debugger can be attached to an MSYS/MINGW binary. Try google.

Anyway, this forum is not active anymore, and you should ask your questions on the new forum at https://discuss.pixls.us/c/software/natron

There is also a discussion on building Natron for windows there: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/building-natron-on-windows-from-scratch/7580

Maybe Windows users will be able to help you

[Manuel Hüttel]

thank you for your answer, i already moved this question to the new Forum

https://discuss.pixls.us/t/openfx-plugin-development-debugging-on-windows/7720