addon.apx not a valid win32 application

[dushyant]

Hello,
On trying to compile an addon on visual-studio-2017, I get the error: "addonName.apx is not a valid win32 application".. What's the problem here? (I have compiled this addon earlier and it worked.)

Thanks.

[Ralph Wessel]

In what context did you see this error? In a sense, the report is correct - an add-on is not an application.

[dushyant]

I get this error while trying to build the addon from the Visual-Studio-Solution..

[Ralph Wessel]

I assume this was when you tried to debug or run the add-on? If so, you need to set the executable path for debugging to the Archicad application.

[dushyant]

Can you please tell where exactly is this path to be set in Visual Studio?

[Tibor Lorantfy]

APX Add-Ons are dynamic librarys (DLL) on Windows platform so those cannot be executed.
The executable is the ARCHICAD.exe, that will load your Add-On, so you should set the path of ARCHICAD.exe.
After ARCHICAD was opened, you can load your Add-On from the Add-On Manager dialog (if it wasn't loaded yet).

[Ralph Wessel · Accepted solution]

dushyant wrote:
Can you please tell where exactly is this path to be set in Visual Studio?

In the project Properties, under the section Configuration Properties > Debugging > Command
Just set a path to the target version of Archicad

[dushyant]

Thanks a lot!