Installing plugins in Rhino 6

Serengeti (Rhino WIP) Developer
1

I see that rhiexec is gone now, and am wondering what the procedure is for installing a plugin in Rhino 6. In the SDK documentation I see something called CRhinoInstallPlugin::Install. Are we meant to install plugins programmatically now?

Thanks in advance

2

Look here:

C:\Program Files\McNeel\Rhino Installer Engine

Does this help?

3

Ah, it has been separated out! Am I meant to hard-code this path, or is there a registry entry pointing to it? Is this used only for Rhino 6?

Thanks!

4

I’m sure there is, as RHI files are associated with it. Why do you need to know the path to the installer? What problem are you trying to solve?

Thanks,

– D

5 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\McNeel\RhiExec
6

I am updating our installer, for the Iray For Rhino 6 plugin. Thanks for the registry key. Odd that my registry search didn’t come up with this one.

Does this correspond to what is on Github? (I am looking for a help page for how to tell it which Rhino I want to install into)?

Carsten

7

Are you referring to this page?

Rhino - Rhino Installer Engine

I don’t believe any of the Rhino Installer Engine information has been updated, as I’m sure there are still changes coming.

8

Okay, that page seems to say that the choice is made automatically (by rhiexec), so I will just forge ahead and try it, and see if it ends up in the right place. Thanks for your help.

9

You should not need to find rhiexec on the system by full path. Rhino registers the .RHI file extension, so you can simply shell-execute the .RHI to do the installation.

10

Ah, I see, thanks. I will update it when I get a moment, although I did finish the task for now, and it works.