<title>Embedding GPlugin</title>

You can embed GPlugin into any language that has GObject-Introspection

support, but in this example we're going to look at embedding GPlugin

into a C based project.

Using GPlugin is pretty simple and I'd like to think straight forward

since that's the way I designed it.

During the start up of your application you need to add the following

code:

/* Initialize the GPlugin library */

gplugin_init();

/* Tell GPlugin to look for plugins in its default paths */

gplugin_manager_add_default_paths();

/* Optionally tell GPlugin to look for plugins in application specific

* paths.

*/

gplugin_manager_add_app_paths(PREFIX, "application");

/* Once you're ready to find/load plugins call g_plugin_manager_refresh.

*/

gplugin_manager_refresh();

When your application is shutting down you need to uninitialize GPlugin

by calling

gplugin_uninit();