Compiling OFX plugins for windows with MinGW and GCC

[Jim DiNunzio]

Hi,

I just started learning OFX and writing plugins. I'm using MS Visual Studio and the build process works ok. However, most of my code is built in the MSYS2/MinGW64 environment with GCC and I'd rather not port it all to MSVC. I noticed the plugin examples' makefile had MSYS2 support and I was able to build the sample plug-in bundles,  but after copying them to the plugin folder  they didn't show up in the host program. (davinci Resolve and i think I tried Natron too). The MSVC builds had no problem showing up. Now that I am writing this maybe it's because those GCC built ones have some std library dll dependency that can't be found on load. But I could not find any information about  why that MSYS build support was in the examples or how to install them. That MSYS/MinGW64 environment is an alternate for Windows so it must be possible to get it working. 

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Jim

[Alexandre Bizeau]

As you said, you suspect a dll dependency mismatch. You should ensure that first. You could try to use dependency walker and check that all DLL after found for your .ofx on your system.