Microsoft Windows
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An example Makefile is included with the NDK examples shipped in the NDK sub-directory of the Documentation installed with NUKE.

There is also an example Visual Studio project file in the vc10 directory that can be used as well.


For Windows, plugins will need to be built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 in order to be compatible. The use of other versions of the compiler is unlikely to produce compatible plugins.

The Foundry builds NUKE using the Intel compiler, but building plug-ins with Visual Studio 2010's compilers will be compatible.


NUKE on Windows is compatible with plug-ins built with:

**Visual Studio 2010 - (Manifest Version: 10.0.30319).

Beware of Windows Updates changing the installed CRT runtime which could affect compatibility.

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   Plug-ins must be built against Visual Studio 2010.


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The resulting dynamic link library file (.dll) should then be moved to your .nuke directory (or otherwise into the NUKE plugin_path). Your .nuke directory is in your Users/username directory on Windows 7, or the equivalent directory containing your My Documents folder on older versions of Windows.

See :ref:`intro-building` for information on creating your first plug-in.
