[Qgis-developer] What is the C++ Plugin writing Workflow?

[MORREALE Jean Roc]

Le 28/12/2011 12:07, aruntheguy at gmail.com a écrit :
> Hello Devs,
>
> In connection with the previous announcement that, I am planning to build
> the Heatmap plugin and people suggesting that I use C++ for it so that it
> gets native support, I have a few doubts regarding this.
>
> Firstly what exactly is the workflow? My rudimentary understanding is that,
> C++ plugins are shipped with the software. So I need to create a folder for
> my plugin inside the Quantum-GIS/src/plugins/ folder and write my code
> inside that folder, and compile the entire Quantum-GIS for errors.
>
> I think I am wrong, because, one cannot compile the entire codebase just to
> verify errors in 5 or 6 files. So how exactly is it done?
>
> I have been hunting around the web and the hub.qgis for this info, for
> about 2 days. Most docs talk about the Qgis 0.8 era development only.

http://linfiniti.com/2011/02/speeding-up-qgis-compilation-times-with-ccache/