How to construct a complete plugin using the emacs skeletons 0. Install open-vpp, including the development package. 1. Load emacs skeletons M-x find-file all-skel.el M-x eval-buffer 2. Pick a single-word, lower-case name for your plugin. For example: macswap. Hereafter, we'll refer to the selected name as . 3. Generate the entire plugin: M-x make-plugin Plugin-name: Or, generate each file individually: 3. Create the required directories, e.g. under .../vpp $ mkdir -p -plugin/ 4. Create -plugin/{configure.ac,Makefile.am} M-x find-file -plugin/configure.ac M-x plugin-configure-skel M-x find-file -plugin/Makefile.am M-x plugin-makefile.skel 5. Create the api skeleton M-x find-file -plugin//.api M-x plugin-api-skel 6. Create the api message enumeration header file M-x find-file -plugin//_msg_enum.h M-x plugin-msg-enum-skel 7. Create the "all-api" header file M-x find-file -plugin//_all_api_h.h M-x plugin-all-apih-skel 8. Create the main data structure definition header file M-x find-file -plugin//.h M-x plugin-h-skel 9. Create the plugin main C file M-x find-file -plugin//.c M-x plugin-main-skel 10. Create the vpp-api-test plugin main C file M-x find-file -plugin//_test.c M-x plugin-test-skel 11. Create the data plane packet processing node M-x find-file -plugin//node.c M-x plugin-node-skel 12. Process autotools input files $ cd -plugin $ autoreconf -i -f 13. Build the plugin skeleton $ mkdir build $ cd build $ ../configure $ make $ sudo make install