working with hcustom is really easy, first of all your code in visual studio shouldn't have any errors , as you can see in the image below in the output section we have 3 succeeded without an fails , it's important to be in Debug mode and X64 , you can set your project in LNK errors post in my blog to work in x64 mode ------- save your project
run houdini command line tool from start menu
open your project folder and copy the path and type in comman line tool ---- cd "your project folder path" push enter
type hcustom your file name.cpp - in this case the file's name is main so we type : hcustom main.cpp - (Enter) , it creates a mian.o file but where is the main.dll file that we need
hcustom automatically put our main.dll file inside the path C:\Users\amink\Documents\houdini17.5\DSO
And done
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