Dear Alex,

The extension module documentation is unfortunately outdated. I will try to get back to you with an update within a few days.

One module following the new scheme, but still much a work in progress, is https://github.com/heplesser/bsshslmmodule. I am working on this at present with the goal of turning it into a fully worked example.

Best regards,

Hans Ekkehard

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From: Alex Serenko <serenko@phystech.edu>
Date: Thursday, 27 March 2025 at 19:06
To: users@nest-simulator.org <users@nest-simulator.org>
Subject: [NEST Users] What exactly should one do to customize one's own extension module?

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Dear community,

If I just change the name in the line

set( MODULE_NAME mymodule )

in CMakeLists.txt (in the up-to-date master at https://github.com/nest/nest-extension-module), the module can be compiled, but nest.Import (of NEST compiled from the up-to-date master) fails with a dynamic loader error.

This hints that the module name should be consistent with some other names within the code, but the documentation at https://nest-extension-module.readthedocs.io/en/latest/extension_modules.html, obviously somewhat outdated, does not help with this.

Maybe someone has already made extension modules after the refactoring (of 2023) of the template?

Sorry for bothering,

Best wishes,

Alex Serenko