Building PCoIP Virtual Channel Plug-In Samples¶

Use CMake (Cross-Platform Make) to build the sample plug-ins for Windows, macOS, or Linux. CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test, and package software. You can download the latest version of CMake for platform specific installation file from www.cmake.org. Building the plug-ins for Windows requires Microsoft Visual Studio.

Building the plug-ins for other platforms requires the SCons software construction tool which in turn requires Python, and a gcc compiler or a corresponding toolchain which supports the pthreads library (for the operating system primitives used in the plug-ins). On all platforms you can use CMake to configure and generate platform and compiler specific build files and build the target plug-ins on the chosen platforms.

Using CMake to Configure and Generate Platform and Compiler Build Files¶

The following image shows the configuration information for CMake with Microsoft Visual Studio on Windows:

You can configure other platforms in a similar way to take the source codes and generate the build files in the designated binaries folder. It is possible to configure CMake on the command-line user interface, for information refer to CMake documentation at the CMake wiki page.

To build the target plug-ins on your chosen platform, go to the output build files folder and build the plug-in with the designated compiler.