Yak spec fails to get author, description & url from MFC plugin

Rhino Developer Yak
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Hi !

When running yak spec command on a freshly built MFC dll plug-in, yak correctly finds the RhinoPlugInName and RhinoPlugInVersion defined with RHINO_PLUG_IN_NAME and RHINO_PLUG_IN_VERSION but fails to retrieve other values, although defined.

Here is an example of output:

---

name: PluginName

version: 1.2.3.4

authors:

- <author>

description: <description>

url: <url>

Would it be possible to fix this, please ? Am I missing something ?

2

Hi @Guillaume_Chereau,

I’ve logged the issue.

– Dale

3

Thank you @dale !

I just wanted to let you know that I’ve developed a custom “yak spec” tool for Rhino’s MFC plug-ins, and it works fine. Here’s the code snippet that loads the appropriate symbols.

Regards

#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <string>
#include <vector>

typedef const wchar_t* (*FnW)(void);
typedef const char* (*FnA)(void);

struct PluginInfo {
    std::wstring name;
    std::string version;
    std::vector<std::wstring> authors;
    std::wstring description;
    std::wstring url;
    std::vector<std::wstring> keywords;
    std::wstring icon;
};


// main function

int wmain(int argc, wchar_t* argv[])
{
    // arguments
    ...

    // load rhp module
    ...

    HMODULE hModule = LoadLibraryExW(
        rhpPath.c_str(),
        NULL,
        DONT_RESOLVE_DLL_REFERENCES | LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH
    );

    if (hModule)
        wprintf(L"Loaded %ls\n", rhpPath.c_str());
    else
    {
        PrintLastError();
        wprintf(L"Failed to load %ls\n", rhpPath.c_str());
        return 1;
    }

    // retrieve plugin info
    FnW RhinoPlugInName = (FnW)GetProcAddress(hModule, "RhinoPlugInName");
    FnA RhinoPlugInVersion = (FnA)GetProcAddress(hModule, "RhinoPlugInVersion");
    FnW RhinoPlugInDeveloperOrganization = (FnW)GetProcAddress(hModule, "RhinoPlugInDeveloperOrganization");
    FnW RhinoPlugInDescription = (FnW)GetProcAddress(hModule, "RhinoPlugInDescription");
    FnW RhinoPlugInDeveloperWebsite = (FnW)GetProcAddress(hModule, "RhinoPlugInDeveloperWebsite");

    // fill info struct
    PluginInfo pInfo;
    pInfo.name = RhinoPlugInName ? RhinoPlugInName() : GetFileNameWithoutExtension(rhpPath);
    pInfo.description = RhinoPlugInDescription ? RhinoPlugInDescription() : L"<description>";
    ...

    // free library
    FreeLibrary(hModule);

    ...

    return 0;
}