[vlc-devel] "approved" method for locating plugins dir

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

	Hello,

Le lundi 23 mai 2011 23:12:43 Nick Briggs, vous avez écrit :
> Is there an approved method for locating where plugins should be installed
> from a standalone compilation/installation of a VLC module?

Hmm no, I'm afraid I did not think about that.

> I'm trying to maintain an access module (for CCNx, http://www.ccnx.org)
> that is compatible with most versions of VLC,

Binary compatibility is explicitly broken at every x.y.0 release. I guess 
you're using quite a pile of ifdefs. Then again, some plugin classes are more 
stable than others.

> but about March 2010 plugins
> moved from $(vlclibdir)/modules to $(vlclibdir)/plugins, and there doesn't
> seem to be a pkg-config value that reflects this.

I can add a pkg variable, but as far as backward compatibility is concerned, 
you're going to have to hardcode $(libdir)/vlc/module for VLC < 1.1 and 
$(libdir)/vlc/plugins for VLC >= 1.1.0.

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