Plugin Setup

This page is about configuring XCode (Mac) or Visual C++ (Windows) so that it will compile plugins for FileMaker.

Taking either the FileMaker Plugin example, or one of the sample templates provided by other plugin developers and getting it to compile so that it will load in FileMaker Client.

Initial Configuration

Changes to make to compile the plugin and make any other initial setup changes.

Microsoft Visual C++

When attempting to compile the plugin on Windows using Microsoft Visual C++ Studio, I found I needed to download and install VS SDK for Windows.

This can be downloaded for free from www.microsoft.com

Adding Version Info to Windows Plugin

By default, the FM 7 API doesn't add the 'Version' information to the compiled plugin on windows. You can include this by copying from the FM5.5 API the Version Info Adding Windows Version Info