Develop your own Lightwave plugin using Open Source Software
Carl Looper has put together an excellent tutorial on how to develop your own Lightwave plugin using of Dev-C++, an Open Source Software (OSS) development environment for C/C++.
The step by step tutorial will show you how to create a simple plugin. It won’t show you how to rewrite FPrime 2.0, but its a good start!
Check it out here.