Creating Plugin-Based Game Code - Sept 6th - Live From Epic HQ

[kamrann]

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1. Yes. Though you can black list / disable the enabled by default plugins to not have them linked. Some plugins don’t get linked in shipping builds, e.g. Developer Plugins.
2. Maybe, it’s on the list of important things to solve with plugins; as is making it possible for plugins to have a Shader directory.
3. Because of the large engine header files. On the build machines we share PCHs to avoid the obj being stuffed into each lib, is my understanding. If you were building the whole engine from source & the plugins you should also see a similar size.

Thanks for the answers Nick.

With number 3, I don’t really understand why the libs would need to be so big when built independently - presumably this stuff ends up getting dropped when linking anyway, rather than duplicated in the exe. But I won’t pretend to have any idea what I’m talking about. Cheers.