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Made changes to reflect changed way to register engines
(→‎Example: engines/quux/quux.cpp: Engine::init has been removed some time ago, update one comment in the QuuxEngine constructor accordingly.)
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# Add <tt>engines/quux/detection.cpp</tt>; It will contain the plugin interface code (more on that in the next section).
# Add <tt>engines/quux/detection.cpp</tt>; It will contain the plugin interface code (more on that in the next section).
# Modify <tt>engines/engines.mk</tt> by adding your engine. It should be clear what to do by looking at what is done for the other engines there.
# Modify <tt>engines/engines.mk</tt> by adding your engine. It should be clear what to do by looking at what is done for the other engines there.
# Modify <tt>configure</tt> by adding a new add_engine line. Again, just check out what is done for the existing engines.
# Modify <tt>engines/configure.engines</tt> by adding a new add_engine line. Again, just check out what is done for the existing engines.
# Modify <tt>base/plugins.cpp</tt>; in particular, you have to add your engine to the list in <code>StaticPluginProvider::getPlugins</code>.


That's it. The difficult part is of course writing the Engine subclass. More on that in the next section!
That's it. The difficult part is of course writing the Engine subclass. More on that in the next section!
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