I’m working on a language plugin for Unreal, and I’ve been trying to figure out how does UHT pick up your own ScriptGenerator plugin. By reading the source code, I understand I should inherit from IScriptGeneratorPluginInterface and do something like IModularFeatures::Get().RegisterModularFeature(TEXT("ScriptGenerator"), this); at startup.
However, I’ve been having trouble to even get my module loaded.
By following ScriptGeneratorPlugin example, I’ve made a new plugin with the following .uplugin:
{
"FileVersion" : 3,
"FriendlyName" : "UE4Haxe Extern Generator plugin",
"Version" : 1,
"VersionName": "alpha",
"FriendlyVersion" : "1.0",
"EngineVersion" : "4.8.0",
"Description" : "Automatically generate externs from UHT definitions",
"Category" : "Scripting",
"EnabledByDefault" : true,
"IsBetaVersion" : true,
"Modules" :
[
{
"Name" : "HaxeExternGenerator",
"Type" : "Program",
"LoadingPhase" : "PostConfigInit"
}
]
}
Right now my implementation of the module just consists of stub calls. For example, the header is:
#pragma once
#include <IScriptGeneratorPluginInterface.h>
#include <Modules/ModuleManager.h>
class IHaxeExternGenerator : public IScriptGeneratorPluginInterface
{
public:
static inline IHaxeExternGenerator& Get() {
return FModuleManager::LoadModuleChecked<IHaxeExternGenerator>("HaxeExternGenerator");
}
static inline bool IsAvailable() {
return FModuleManager::Get().IsModuleLoaded("HaxeExternGenerator");
}
};
And the C++ file implements all abstract functions from IScriptGeneratorPluginInterface and StartupModule/ShutdownModule. The C++ code also calls IMPLEMENT_MODULE(FHaxeExternGenerator, HaxeExternGenerator)
The strange part is that when the .uplugin is defined as a program - like it is right now - UBT won’t even build it when building the main project. When I change it to Editor, it does build, but the resulting module doesn’t get loaded in UBT in time for it to be picked up by UHT.
Am I missing something?