Grow/GD - Golang GDExtension Plugins

[KameiKojirou]

Would it be possible to make Grow GDExtension plugins similar to this RustGodot example? It also would be really cool it there was a way to spin up a template in addon folder if so. I'm quite fond of Rust, but I'd love to do something similar with Grow.

A Quick Example: https://github.com/KameiKojirou/gd-rust-plugin-template/tree/main/addons

[Splizard]

@KameiKojirou, yes you can totally use graphics.gd for making plugins, you could start by copying the contents of your graphics folder into the addon folder and creating a plugin.cfg. Are you having any difficulty setting up something similar to the rust example you linked to?

[KameiKojirou]

@Splizard the issue I keep running into is that Godot registers it twice, both .gdextensions are auto loaded and you get conflicts in with the second one in the plugin because the primary one is already ready.

gd auto scaffles another Godot project if it doesn't detect graphics folder or something similar to that when ran. Would it be possible to skip that check with a flag or something similar?

[KameiKojirou]

here's what I have so far: https://github.com/KameiKojirou/Grow-Plugin-Example

I might be missing something simple as well.

[Splizard]

Right, I think I understand what's happening here, so thegd command is designed for building standalone projects primarily in Go. If you want to create a plugin/addon instead, you can build the gdextension library yourself, using the standard go command, instead of using gd. Then you can setup the folder structure however you like.

go build -o $(go env GOOS)_$(go env GOARCH).so -buildmode=c-shared

[KameiKojirou]

Works perfectly, thanks for the help!

[KameiKojirou]

Resolved! Thank you!