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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi qgis developers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I´ve downloaded a c++ plugin sample from <a href="https://github.com/thebigspoon/qgis_cpp_plugin_cookbook">
https://github.com/thebigspoon/qgis_cpp_plugin_cookbook</a> and managed to compile the source with Visual Studio 2012 Express and the MOC.exe from \OSGeo4W\bin\<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The resulting DLL was placed in \OSGeo4W\apps\qgis\plugins and from the plugin log in QGIS I can see that QGIS tries to load the plugin but fails with the following error message:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Failed to load <path to plugin> (Reason: Cannot load library <path to plugin>: The specified procedure could not be found) (the last sentence was translated from Danish)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">First of all – is it possible to build plugins with Visual Studio or am I supposed to use MinGW?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I´ve tried to do a dumpbin.exe /exports for my DLL and I got the following<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">0001100A category = @ILT+5(_category)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">000110E1 classFactory = @ILT+220(_classFactory)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">00011168 description = @ILT+355(_description)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">00011537 icon = @ILT+1330(_icon)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">0001164A name = @ILT+1605(_name)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">000112DA version = @ILT+725(_version)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Am I missing a required function?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DA">Any suggestions or comments are greatly appreciated<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DA">TIA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DA">Kaare<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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