Packaging a plugin

The goal: a plugin ready to be dropped into another Rusteal project, or shared.

rusteal plugin package Inventory --output ~/Packages

It builds the plugin’s library with the release profile and copies the plugin into ~/Packages/Inventory:

• its sources: the C++ module, the Rust crate, the generated code;
• its content and configuration;
• its binaries for the platform it was built on: the Rust library and the editor module;
• none of the build output.

Using it in another project

1. Copy the packaged directory into the other project’s Plugins/. The project must be at the same Rusteal version.

2. List the plugin in the project’s .uproject, under Plugins.

3. Build everything there:

   rusteal build --all
   

A binary for another platform comes from packaging the plugin on that platform.

In a packaged game

A game packaged with rusteal package stages the libraries of its runtime plugins next to its own. Editor plugins are left out, as the engine leaves out editor modules.