Plugins Are Only Working For People in a Package Game if they have C++ Project

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[MENTION=1345]Ben Marsh[/MENTION]

It’s unlikely that we’ll have hybrid-monolithic game builds before the 4.8 release (ie. plugins in DLLs, game in an EXE), though I have done a lot of the ground-work to support that. We do, however, plan to support packaging content-only games with plugins in the 4.8 release. The editor should detect if you have a non-default plugin enabled, and generate a temporary build target to link it in as necessary, prompting you to install Visual Studio/XCode through a free download if you don’t already have it.

It’s not as slick as we hope to make it, but it’s a step in the right direction.

So it’s been a while, but I don’t suppose there’s been any further steps in this direction recently? It’d be so good to shed the compiling requirement completely for plugins.

I recently released a game on Steam and needed some plugins to fill the Steamworks void in the stock BP nodes. It’s good that you only need VS installed for the plugins to work, but for me it meant I now technically had a “code project” (in that I could no longer deploy to iOS without acquiring a Mac, and having to build from a Mac meant I ended up having to compile from full source, meaning if I need to upgrade engines for updated SDK support or something, I’ll have to merge code without really knowing what I’m doing)…