WP8 plugins folder

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Is this folder supported and how its hierarchy is supposed to be (so references are added to vsproj)?

Plugins/WP8
Plugins/WP8/(ARM or x86?)

I know I cant probably use the code inside editor since its running mono but how should I get the code to work on the device at least and so that the editor doesn’t fail to compiler errors due plugins

#if !UNITY_EDITOR UNITY_WP8
xx
#else
yy
#endif

Docs don’t seem to have any info about the new platforms :slight_smile:

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What you can do is create two plugins. One for the editor, and one for WP8. The editor one should just contain empty functions (or you can implement them to work in the editor) that match up to all the functions in the WP8 plugin. They should be named exactly the same, then you put one .dll into the Plugins/ folder, and the WP8 one into the Plugins/WP8/ folder.

That way, in the editor you can call the functions (and use the Editor plugin), but when you build it will replace the editor plugin with your plugin of the same name in the Plugins/WP8 directory.

-Kyle

3

Yeah thats a good way however there is another problem or maybe a bug with Unity. I have plugins (such as mono sqlite) under Android and iOS folders and they get referenced in the WP8 VS projects (editor+build) which makes it all fail. I cant figure out a way to get my WP8 to compile unless I delete or rename those plugin folders.

4

Thats right - all plugins will be included in the build, so if you have plugins used by others that do not support Windows 8 / WP8, then they will throw errors. You have three options:

  1. Try to get an update from the developer with supported API’s being used.
  2. Remove them from your project, or into a “PluginsNotInBuild” folder when building for Windows 8 / WP8
  3. Create a dummy plugin of the same name and place it in the Plugins/WP8 folder. This will overwrite the other plugin when building to WP8.
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It should not work like that as each platform has its own plugins and folders so it should not care or even see what they use. It’s really messy if we have to move or rename files when switching between platforms in order to make builds as it will also mess the version system. Maybe the problem existed before too but was not noticeable as all platforms used same mono version with pretty much same features. Now WP8/Metro have its own and rest use mono so there are lot of conflicts depending what plugins are in use (inhouse and 3rd party).

Main problem is that I could not even get it to compile even after adding compiler defines everywhere because it was checking the validity of iOS and Android plugin folder stuff which use a lot of stuff that WP8 ain’t supporting. Ill see how well I get this working and if not I might submit a bugreport unless Tomas or Tautvydas has more info about this :wink:

Gotta try the dummy thing and see if it helps as I don’t need or want to support same features on WP8. Thanks for the tips :slight_smile: