OpenCPN Development

[Cags]

Hi,

I am a new user of OpenCPN and love it already. I am also a software developer and am very keen to develop plugins for some racing oriented apps along the lines of expedition and Decman.

I have followed the windows compilation guidelines to the letter and successfully compiled the product and some of the common plugins (polar, statusbar, wmm etc. However, the plugins do not run in under any installation of OpenCPN from 4.0.0 to 4.1.718. I get error messages from incompatible icon graphics to ungraceful crashes.

I did not manage to compile the 4.0.0 release because of errors in the ocpn_pixel.cpp, printtable.cpp and jsonval.cpp. These are undeclared identifiers due to graphics base #ifdef's.

Am I missing something fundamental here? Are there any guidelines that some of you more seasoned developers can give me? Or are there old forums explaining the pitfalls that I can't find?

I have spent a few days working on this and am now at the stage where it's get some help or give up.

Thanks

Cags