Export Unreal plugin and again import it as Third Party Plugin

Development Pipeline & Plugins
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I am trying to export an Unreal plugin, that has some Unreal modules dependencies, as a DLL, and later on import DLL to another Unreal plugin as Third Party Plugin. What is the best way to do it?

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In the meantime I tried the following:

  1. From first Unreal Engine’s project I export plugin as .lib file (lets call the plugin SDKPlugin)
  2. In second project I create a third party plugin called MyPluginImplementation where I will implement .lib and header files
  3. Under MyPluginImplementation/Source I create new folder MyPlugin (for current and future third party plugins and their things), and under it I create SDKPlugin folder, as well as MyPlugin.Build.cs.
  4. Under SDKPlugin folder, I add include and lib folders.
  5. In include folder I copied from SDKPlugin project MyClass.h, MyClass.generated.h, and SDKPlugin.h (as the compiler complained about it)
  6. In lib folder I copied SDKPlugin.lib

MyPlugin.Build.cs looks like:

using System.IO;
using System;
using UnrealBuildTool;

public class MyPlugin : ModuleRules
{
	private string ModulePath
	{
		get { return ModuleDirectory; }
	}

	private string BinariesPath
	{
		get { return Path.GetFullPath(Path.Combine(ModulePath, "../../Binaries/")); }
	}
	
	public MyPlugin(ReadOnlyTargetRules Target) : base(Target)
	{
		Type = ModuleType.External;

        LoadPlugin(Target);
	}
	
	public void LoadPlugin(ReadOnlyTargetRules Target)
	{
		PCHUsage = ModuleRules.PCHUsageMode.UseExplicitOrSharedPCHs;
		
		PublicIncludePaths.AddRange(
			new string[] {
				Path.Combine(ModulePath, "SDKPlugin/include"),
			}
			);
			
		
		PublicDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(
			new string[]
			{
		                "Core",
		                "CoreUObject",
		                "Engine",
		                "HTTP"
			}
			);
			
		
		PrivateDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(
			new string[]
			{
				"HTTP"
			}
			);
		
		PublicAdditionalLibraries.Add(Path.Combine(ModulePath, "SDKPlugin/lib/UE4Editor-SDKPlugin.lib"));
	}
}

But when I try to add UMyClass to MyPluginImplementation I get bunch of compiler errors.
Does anyone knows where am I wrong?