[strongSwan-dev] Looking for direction on writing a custom plugin.

Andreas Steffen andreas.steffen at strongswan.org
Wed Oct 3 23:51:52 CEST 2018


I have rebased the demo-plugin branch to the latest master

Regards

Andreas

On 02.10.2018 18:59, FORTMANN, TOM wrote:
> Noel,
> 
> Thank you for the quick response.  This is exactly what I was looking for.
> 
> Tom
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel Kuntze <noel.kuntze+strongswan-dev-ml at thermi.consulting> 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 11:38 AM
> To: FORTMANN, TOM <tf990d at att.com>; dev at lists.strongswan.org
> Subject: Re: [strongSwan-dev] Looking for direction on writing a custom plugin.
> 
> Hello Tom,
> 
> Checkout the demo-plugin branch. It contains one additional commit, you can see its contents here: https://github.com/strongswan/strongswan/commit/648735c78ec7ca563b6ce52e65f54a44573973a7
> 
> For future migration, just keep a single diff or a set of diffs that you can then apply on top of the checked out source code of the release you want to build.
> Regarding building just that plugin, you configure the source and then run "make" in the plugin's directory. But you shouldn't do that because of possible ABI changes between compiler versions, if you don't build it all in one swoop.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Noel
> 
> Am 02.10.18 um 18:26 schrieb FORTMANN, TOM:
>>
>> I’m looking for information on how to build a custom plugin.  I can use the source from any of the provided plugins as a template, but I’m looking to guidance on how to integrate this in to the overall build process or building it outside of the strongswan build.  Pros/cons.  Also, tips on doing this in a way that simplifies migration to future strongswan updates would be very helpful.
>>
>>  
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>> Thanks in advance for any and all help,
>>
>> Tom
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>>  
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> 

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