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Re 1: Why not create a DPF wrapper for this and have DPF create the ladspa/dssi/vst2/vst3/lv2 for you? -> https://github.com/DISTRHO/DPF https://github.com/DIST

by drmr 5y ago

Re 1: Why not create a DPF wrapper for this and have DPF create the ladspa/dssi/vst2/vst3/lv2 for you? -> https://github.com/DISTRHO/DPF https://github.com/DISTRHO/DPF

jcelerier 5y ago
I had looked into it ! but it seemed that making a DPF plug-in involved a lot of boilerplate, while I really wanted to do something where I can just include a couple headers and get going, without any particular compilation hassle (the whole library is header-only as it is pretty much entirely templates).
- gavinray 5y ago
  This is the absolute worst part of VST3. These 2 soul-crushing lines in the build file: https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3_pluginterfaces/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L2-L3 https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3_pluginterfaces/blob/m... # pluginterfaces should actually be a header-only library, # but it has some sources as well which need compilation. Should theoretically be fixable right, so that it's purely the interfaces and doesn't need compilation? Why on earth did they do it like this?...
  - jcelerier 5y ago
    Yeah, until now I had resigned myself to linking against stmg_common in cmake. But maybe they can be split out to simplify that whole... Thing. I almost have it working, will push tomorrow after some sleep and then will add vcpkg as you showed :)
    - gavinray 5y ago
      > "I almost have it working, will push tomorrow after some sleep and then will add vcpkg as you showed :)" Bless, the hero we needed but didn't deserve
  - spacechild1 5y ago
    Actually, you can write VST3 plugins/hosts using only the header files in pluginterfaces. (I needed to do this because the source files didn't even compile with MinGW. Maybe they have fixed this.) I don't use a single VST3 source file in my “vstplugin“ project: https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin
    - gavinray 5y ago
      This is very useful to know -- TIL, thank you!!

by drmr 5y ago

Re 1: Why not create a DPF wrapper for this and have DPF create the ladspa/dssi/vst2/vst3/lv2 for you? -> https://github.com/DISTRHO/DPF https://github.com/DISTRHO/DPF

jcelerier 5y ago

I had looked into it ! but it seemed that making a DPF plug-in involved a lot of boilerplate, while I really wanted to do something where I can just include a couple headers and get going, without any particular compilation hassle (the whole library is header-only as it is pretty much entirely templates).

gavinray 5y ago
This is the absolute worst part of VST3. These 2 soul-crushing lines in the build file: https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3_pluginterfaces/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L2-L3 https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3_pluginterfaces/blob/m... # pluginterfaces should actually be a header-only library, # but it has some sources as well which need compilation. Should theoretically be fixable right, so that it's purely the interfaces and doesn't need compilation? Why on earth did they do it like this?...
- jcelerier 5y ago
  Yeah, until now I had resigned myself to linking against stmg_common in cmake. But maybe they can be split out to simplify that whole... Thing. I almost have it working, will push tomorrow after some sleep and then will add vcpkg as you showed :)
  - gavinray 5y ago
    > "I almost have it working, will push tomorrow after some sleep and then will add vcpkg as you showed :)" Bless, the hero we needed but didn't deserve
- spacechild1 5y ago
  Actually, you can write VST3 plugins/hosts using only the header files in pluginterfaces. (I needed to do this because the source files didn't even compile with MinGW. Maybe they have fixed this.) I don't use a single VST3 source file in my “vstplugin“ project: https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin
  - gavinray 5y ago
    This is very useful to know -- TIL, thank you!!