The status bar plugin provides customizable, easier to read output text and lower cpu usage than the builtin statusbar.
Under windows, you must find the file "opencpn.lib" (Visual Studio) or "libopencpn.dll.a" (mingw) which is built in the build directory after compiling opencpn. This file must be copied to the plugin directory.
Build as normally:
For OSX standalone build in statusbar_pi directory:
The plugin code is licensed under the terms of the GPL v3+