add cmake switch to force recursive plugin loading

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -110,14 +110,6 @@ if(APPLE)
   add_link_options(-stdlib=libc++)
 endif()
 
-if(FORCE_COLORED_OUTPUT)
-  if("${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "GNU")
-    add_compile_options(-fdiagnostics-color=always)
-  elseif("${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "Clang")
-    add_compile_options(-fcolor-diagnostics)
-  endif()
-endif()
-
 # Global compilation switches.
 option(BUILD_WITH_QT6 "Build application with Qt 6." ON)
 option(BUILD_MSYS2 "Build application for MSYS2 ecosystem." OFF)
@@ -125,6 +117,7 @@ option(USE_SYSTEM_SQLITE "Use system-wide SQLite3 library." ON)
 option(NO_LITE "Enable QtWebEngine and other more demanding components." ON)
 option(UPDATE_TRANSLATIONS "Call lupdate to update translation files from source (Qt 6 only)." OFF)
 option(FORCE_COLORED_OUTPUT "Always produce ANSI-colored output (GCC/Clang only)." OFF)
+option(LOAD_PLUGINS_FROM_PARENT "Force loading of plugin libraries from parent folder." OFF)
 option(REVISION_FROM_GIT "Get revision using `git rev-parse`." ON)
 option(NO_UPDATE_CHECK "Disable automatic checking for new application updates." OFF)
 option(IS_FLATPAK_BUILD "Set to 'ON' when building RSS Guard with Flatpak." OFF)
@@ -163,6 +156,13 @@ if(MINGW AND NO_LITE)
   set(NO_LITE OFF)
 endif()
 
+if(FORCE_COLORED_OUTPUT)
+  if("${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "GNU")
+    add_compile_options(-fdiagnostics-color=always)
+  elseif("${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "Clang")
+    add_compile_options(-fcolor-diagnostics)
+  endif()
+endif()
 
 if(ENABLE_MEDIAPLAYER_QTMULTIMEDIA AND ENABLE_MEDIAPLAYER_LIBMPV)
   message(FATAL_ERROR "You can only enable 1 media player backend.")

src/librssguard/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -656,6 +656,13 @@ target_compile_definitions(rssguard
   RSSGUARD_LIBDIR="${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}"
 )
 
+if(LOAD_PLUGINS_FROM_PARENT)
+  target_compile_definitions(rssguard
+    PRIVATE
+    LOAD_PLUGINS_FROM_PARENT
+  )
+endif()
+
 # Install public headers.
 set(HEADERS_ROOT "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/librssguard")
 file(GLOB_RECURSE HEADER_FILES RELATIVE ${HEADERS_ROOT} "*.h")

src/librssguard/miscellaneous/pluginfactory.cpp

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ QList<ServiceEntryPoint*> PluginFactory::loadPlugins() const {
     QDirIterator dir_iter(plugin_folder,
                           {plugin_name_wildcard},
                           QDir::Filter::Files,
-#if !defined(NDEBUG)
+#if !defined(NDEBUG) || defined(LOAD_PLUGINS_FROM_PARENT)
                           QDirIterator::IteratorFlag::Subdirectories);
 #else
                           QDirIterator::IteratorFlag::NoIteratorFlags);
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ QStringList PluginFactory::pluginPaths() const {
   paths << QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath();
 #endif
 
-#if !defined(NDEBUG)
+#if !defined(NDEBUG) || defined(LOAD_PLUGINS_FROM_PARENT)
   paths << QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath() + QDir::separator() + QL1S("..") + QDir::separator();
 #endif