How to share build add-on

[RAFD]

Does anyone know how to share or build an add-on that can be shared and working?

I manage to build an add-on from visual studio and it's working in my laptop archicad but when I share my work to others error occurs. It says that "this file is outdated add-on that cannot be used in this archicad version".

[Akos Somorjai]

Hi RAFD,

Please look at which DLLs the add-on uses (you can use Dependency Walker for that). If it shows any of the MSVC debugging libraries, then those are not installed on the other users' machines.

Best, Akos

[RAFD]

Hi sir Akos,

Can you teach or show me how Dependency Walker works?

Thank you!

[Akos Somorjai]

Hi,

Put the built add-on directly into the directory where Archicad.exe is – this will allow the Dependency Walker to find DLLs that are part of Archicad's installation.

Open Dependency Walker (depends.exe), and open the add-on (if it doesn't allow you to open the .apx file, change its extension to .DLL).

Then check the module list where the DLLs are listed for anything in red.

For example, if you see MSVCRTD.DLL (note the 'D' and the end of the filename) – this is the debug version of the Microsoft C runtime library) that is not installed on the users' machines.

Best, Akos

[Joel Buehler · Accepted solution]

Also a little, but maybe stupid Tipp:

Debugging Builds do not work. You need to use a Release Built. 

Was that mistake in my first roll-out 😄