add preliminary support for compiling/loading plugins on windows

2021-03-12 22:21:11 -05:00
parent b2085f56d6
commit 3e90b1971a
6 changed files with 85 additions and 25 deletions
--- a/doc/src/plugin.rst
+++ b/doc/src/plugin.rst
@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ Restrictions

 Plugins are currently not available on Windows.

+For the loading of plugins to work, the LAMMPS library must be
+:ref:`compiled as a shared library <library>`.
+
 Plugins are dependent on the LAMMPS binary interface (ABI)
 and particularly the MPI library used. So they are not guaranteed
 to work when the plugin was compiled with a different MPI library