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## 8 Writing plugins

The capabilities of OCP can be extended by plugins. The type of plugin is not limited, so new graphics modes, file types and even enhanced players may be added by the user. As development for OCP is done using GNU C/C++, it is recommended to use this compiler for developing plugins aswell. We have not tested the plugin interface with other compilers.39

As of UNIX version, we refer to the source-code and GNU tool-chain documentations when it comes to compiling and linking and to look at other plugins as templates for making new ones.

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This might change in the future.