Resolving API name/type changes in different versions

[camnewnham]

Hello! Thanks for this template. It's been very useful to get started on a plugin.

I started with this template, then have copied in most of the BrowserControl example. I noticed when doing this that the builds started failing for Archicad 25 and 26. This appears to be for a few reasons, but all of them seem to be namespace or function name changes.

For example, ACAPI_Register_Menu in AC26 vs. ACAPI_MenuItem_RegisterMenu in AC27.
Similarly, the JS object classes were formerly DG::JSValue and are now JS::Value.

I am relatively new to C++. Is there a technique for using different names based on AC version? It would be convenient to be able to target multiple out of one project.

Coming from C# the equivalent would be:

#if ARCHICAD_26
using JSValue = DG.JSValue;
#else
using JSValue = JS.Value
#endif

Edit: Looking at this again it seems like quite a bit of work to manage multiple versions as the API seems to have changed a reasonable amount (at least by naming convention) between AC26 and AC27

[camnewnham]

I've worked around this by adding the following to CMakeLists.txt

if (DEFINED ADDITIONAL_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS)
	add_compile_definitions(${ADDITIONAL_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS})
endif()

Subsequently if using the python build tools, it can be used in the following way:
python Tools/BuildAddOn.py --configFile config.json --acVersion 27 --additionalCMakeParams ADDITIONAL_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS='PLUGIN_VERSION="1.2.3.4";ARCHICAD_27'

And then in code as

#if ARCHICAD_27
...
#endif