<p>Thanks Emile, so I'll just need to build the plugin itself if I don't need to change the server, right?<br>
And building the plugin, the shovel in this case, does have any specific requirements?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 24, 2011 1:48 PM, "Emile Joubert" <<a href="mailto:emile@rabbitmq.com">emile@rabbitmq.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Hi Simone,<br>> <br>> Op 24/07/11 12:23, het Simone Busoli geskryf:<br>
>> I would like to try adding a max-hops option to the shovel addin, but I have<br>>> no past experience in erlang nor in building an addin from the sources. I<br>>> looked at the docs and I would like to know whether building on Windows is<br>
>> supported and especially if I need to build the server too, or a binary<br>>> deployment is enough to modify and test the addin.<br>> <br>> It is fairly easy to build the broker on Windows if Cygwin is installed.<br>
> You will need at least GNU Make and have the Erlang compiler and<br>> utilities in $PATH. You may want to go this route if you need to modify<br>> the broker or if you want to develop against the very latest unreleased<br>
> version of the broker.<br>> <br>> If you don't need to modify the broker then dropping your .ez file in<br>> the plugins directory of a released build will work. Creating symlinks<br>> in the plugins directory as suggested in the plugins development page<br>
> will not work on Windows.<br>> <br>> <a href="http://www.rabbitmq.com/plugin-development.html">http://www.rabbitmq.com/plugin-development.html</a><br>> <br>> <br>> -Emile<br></div>