A Xentara plugin is a shared library or DLL linked against libxentara-plugin.so under Linux or XentaraPlugin.dll (Release) or XentaraPlugind.dll (Debug) under Windows.

Xentara plugins require Clang 12 or higher, GCC 10 or higher, or Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 or higher. Xentara plugin libraries must be compiled using the C++20 language standard or later.