VST 2.4

[rotemdoron]

Hi All, I'm having issue's building the project, I managed to build using CMake and generated an Xcode project with CMake but I'm getting an error when trying to build 'pluginterfaces/vst2.x/aeffect.h' file not found
It's looking for the VST 2.4 SDK but can't seem to find it anywhere as Steinberg dropped support, would love to know how did you guys manage to build the project. Thank you! :)

[apohl79]

Try this link: https://archive.org/details/VST2SDK

[apohl79]

If ableton allows it, you can run it in lldb via command line or xcode. From there you can debug the plugin.

[apohl79]

FYI, added a few more options to CMake so you can activate dynamic linking w/o patching the cmake files. Just pull from master.

[rotemdoron]

Hi @apohl79, thank you this is great!

[rotemdoron]

Hi @apohl79, seems i can't really build the plugin, I generated an Xcode project using cmake -G Xcode so i can debug but when I run for example the FX VST3 build scheme either on my mac or directly to Ableton as executable, nothing happens the build succeeds but then it stops and it doesn't install the plugin anywhere. would love your help maybe I got it wrong

[apohl79]

I'm not using Xcode. Also I have never really worked with cmakes xcode generator.

Regarding copying, when you are using the "Debug" build config (-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug) there is a COPY target for the binaries. This final cmake step is copying the binaries to ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/... After this your DAW should find them.

Now you can run the DAW in lldb. (eg: lldb "/Applications/Logic Pro X.app/Contents/MacOS/Logic Pro X", put ableton here, run it and load an AG plugin etc)

The problem is probably, that the copy step is executed by cmake, not Xcode. You can try working with symlinks from the plugin folders into your build folder. You might also be able to extend the generated xcode project, but you need to figure this out yourself.