Re: [ecasound] LV2 Plugin Support

[Jeremy S. <jer...@gm...>]

Okay, so I did a little more work on it.  now trying to test it out.
Unfortunately, the git version of ecasound (before I make any changes to it)
is giving me...

$ echo "ladspa-register" | ecasound -c
********************************************************************************
*        ecasound v2.8.1+dev (C) 1997-2011 Kai Vehmanen and others
********************************************************************************
(eca-chainsetup) Chainsetup "untitled-chainsetup"
(eca-session) NOTE: Unable to create a valid chainsetup from the
command-line arguments.
ecasound ('h' for help)> (eca-control) Registered LADSPA plugins:

ecasound ('h' for help)> ecasound ('h' for help)> ---
ecasound: Exiting...


Whereas the Debian package will list all the LADSPA plugins installed on my
system with the same command.  So at this point, I am a bit troubled as to
how I can test my LV2 support, as I have nothing to compare it to.

If anyone is interested in seeing what the problem is, I have put up a git
repository of my work: https://github.com/jeremysalwen/Ecasound-LV2 the
branch "master" is just the current ecasound branch.  The branch "LV2" is
the one I did work on.

You still need to modify lilvmm.hpp if you want it to compile.  Just change

    const char* uri_to_path(const char* uri) { ...

to

    static const char* uri_to_path(const char* uri) {...

wherever it is installed in your system.

Also, any help with understanding why ecasound won't list the LADSPA plugins
when I build it from source would be great.  (As a note, I get this error
system installed ladspa.h, or the one bundled with ecasound)

Jeremy


On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Jeremy Salwen <jer...@gm...>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for this email...Otherwise the code probably would have sat around
> forever while I contemplated it.
>
> Basically, I wrote up a preliminary draft of the code, but then I started
> to run into issues with how I wanted to use lilvmm.  I thought that there
> could be a nicer way to wrap the lilv library in C++ objects than is
> currently done (and I still believe so today).  I started writing up a draft
> of my would-be nicer C++ wrapper, but in hindsight, I realize that this is
> probably not going to work out for ecasound, 1) because it requires
> unique_ptr, which is provided by Boost or C++0x, neither of which you
> probably want brought into the ecasound codebase. 2) It would still take a
> bit more work and testing to make it ready for prime time.
>
> So basically, having a shock to my system was enough to make me realize
> that I should give up what I was doing (at least temporarily), and implement
> LV2 support with manual memory management.
>
> At this point, a major bug in lilvmm makes it so that it will only link if
> I make a modification to a library header... But once I think the basic
> functionality is working, I'll release an alpha version.
>
> Jeremy
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 5:10 PM, S. Massy <li...@wo...> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Let us know when you're ready for some alpha testing. I'm sure some of
>> us would be glad to help.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> S.M.
>>
>> --
>>
>
>