Re: [Audacity-devel] VST plugins on Linux

[Dominic M. <do...@mi...>]

Salut Olivier,

This is a great addition!  If at all possible, I'll commit these
changes to 1.2.0 as optional (disabled by default).  Please be
patient with us, as we're trying to work on getting 1.2.0 ready.

- Dominic

Evalet Olivier wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I am pleased to announce a version of audacity which can load VST
> plugins on Linux. I have done some tests with several (2-3) VST plugins,
> and it seems to be ok :) 
> 
> There are two way to load VST on Linux:
> -- use directly with Wine 
> Using this option, and you can use a lot of windows resources. But you
> must install a wine version before.
> 
> -- use with the win32 loader lib (lib-src/libwin32/libloader.a)
> In this case the the plugin is available only if all his win32 functions
> are managed by the loader. You don't need to have wine installed and to
> run the wineserver in background.  It is fun but limited, I think that
> the best solution is to use directly Wine.(And maybe you need wine to
> install the plugins?)
> 
> The modified files are:
> ./configure.in
> ./Makefile.in
> ./lib-src/Makefile.in
> ./lib-src/libwin32	(MPlayer lib with modifications)
> ./src/configtemplate.h
> ./src/audacity.spec	(wine spec file)
> ./src/Makefile.in
> ./src/AudacityApp.cpp
> ./src/effects/LoadEffects.cpp
> ./src/effects/VST/LoadVSTWin.cpp
> 
> To use correctly NPTL on RedHat9, I have updated the directory:
> ./lib-src/portaudio/pa_unix_oss 	with the last version. 
> 
> 
> the typical configuration is:
> ./configure  --with-wine=/opt/win32 --with-vst=/opt/win32/VstPlugins
> 
> The file:
> http://www.programmers.ch/audacity-src-1.1.4.tar.bz2
> 
> TODO:
> add library check to the configure.in
> add ...
> 
> Olivier
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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