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@@ -7559,3 +7559,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History - Updated the Slovakian language texts (thanks to Milan Hrala). - Improved LIRC timing for repeat function. - When pausing live video, the current audio and subtitle tracks are now retained. +- Added some notes about plugin Makefiles to PLUGINS.html. diff --git a/PLUGINS.html b/PLUGINS.html index 0c7d223a..fafd6feb 100644 --- a/PLUGINS.html +++ b/PLUGINS.html @@ -173,9 +173,15 @@ The <tt>src</tt> directory contains one subdirectory for each plugin, which carr the name of that plugin (in the above example that would be <tt>hello</tt>). What's inside the individual source directory of a plugin is entirely up to the author of that plugin. The only prerequisites are -that there is a <tt>Makefile</tt> that provides the targets <tt>all</tt> and +that there is a <tt>Makefile</tt> that provides the targets <tt>all</tt><modified>, <tt>install</tt></modified> and <tt>clean</tt>, and that a call to <tt>make all</tt> actually produces a dynamically loadable library file for that plugin (we'll get to the details later). +<modified> +The dynamically loadable library file for the plugin shall be located directly under +the plugin's source directory. +See the section <a href="#Initializing a new plugin directory">Initializing a new plugin directory</a> +for how to generate an example Makefile. +</modified> <p> The <tt>lib</tt> directory contains the dynamically loadable libraries of all available plugins. Note that the names of these files are created by concatenating |