Thanks Bugra.
The information you have provided has been most helpful.

Thanks again.

Thanks Bugra.

Ohh, The CRT.

You said
"To make this work, we would need to expose a C interface
(as we did with the new API). But that causes very verbose code,
especially when dealing with strings."

Ok, I assume I can write my exporter using the 'C' portion
of the Sdk.

To be clear then (If you could kindly verify):

1.) I cannot write a 'C' exporter that will appear within Sketchup
as a plugin (i.e appear within the Sketchup Export menu). I will need to write
it as a stand alone application and have the user manually select the Sketchup file
for export.
2.) The Sdk has a director: C:\Source\Sketchup2013\Sdk\SketchUp-SDK-Win\binaries\x64
which contains a slaip.dll and .lib. I assume these are valid for x64?
3.) I am not able to write any sort of Sketchup 'plugin' with the C Sdk (Like
the ones available via the Sketchup Extension Warehouse. These are all Ruby based).

Thanks again for your time.

Thanks Bugra.

Not to start an argument, I am just curious.
I am a native C++ Win32,Com,WinRt programmer.
My forte is defiantly not frameworks (Mfc, Stl, Parallel Process Library,...).
Needless to say I am not a Ruby programmer.

I have some down time right now so I thought I would plunk around
with the Sketchup Sdk (This is not for a client, It is personal).

With that said why exactly is it that I need to compile the skp2xml
sample with 2010? What could possibly be different with the 'C++ Interface'
( I am assuming you are referencing the SketchUpModelExporterInterface struct)?

Is it packing?
Is it the calling convention on the SketchUpModelExporterInterface member functions?

Thanks.

Hello.
I have Sketchup 2013.
I have the Sketchup 2013 C++ SDK.

I have VS 2008 On a Windows 7 Machine and VS 2012 On A Windows 8 machine
(No VS 2010).

I was under the impression that I could build the skp2xml.dll sample and
drop it into the 'Exporter' directory. I then thought that Sketchup would
then list 'XML Exporter (*.xml)' on the File->Export menu.

I have build the skp2xml.dll in both debug and release (Win32) modes.
Windows 8: Sketchup crashes when I click on the 'File' menu (With an object).

Windows 7: Sketchup does not crash but does not display the expected
'XML Exporter (*.xml)' on the File->Export menu.

I believe that the sample is for VS 2010. I cannot open it with VS 2008.
VS 2012 'Converted' it for me. What am I missing? Compiler/Linker options?

Thanks for any help.