What do I need to do to convert a plugin developed in Windows to be Mac-compatible?

[eliv78134277]

If a plugin was written in C++ in visual studio, is there some minimal conversion necessary to make it installable on a mac, or do i need to essentially rewrite it from scratch?

[shachar carmi · Accepted solution]

generally speaking, a plug-in's code should be cross platform.

given you didn't use any windows-specific native API/special library calls,

then porting to mac should be as simple as just pressing "compile". (after

you added all relevant files of course)

[Zac Lam]

And of course, when you do the compile, it needs to be on a Mac.  XCode is the development environment.

Just as you likely started from a sample project for Visual Studio on Win, and then modified it to build your plug-in, you would do the same to the sample project for XCode on Mac.  But as Shachar mentions, for the plug-in C/C++ code, if you stick with cross-platform APIs and After Effects API, you won't have to do any porting for the plug-in code itself.

[eliv78134277]

Thank you-- I've never worked in XCode before so I'm not sure that would have been obvious to me 😃

[eliv78134277]

Thanks