Cool, thanks! (Just did some minor fixes of the Markdown.)
On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 9:37 AM, Stéphane Letz <l...@grame.fr> wrote:
> Thanks a lot Albert, I've started a FAQ with your answer here:
> https://github.com/grame-cncm/faust/wiki,
>
> Stéphane
>
> > Le 27 janv. 2018 à 09:22, Albert Graef <aggr...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:42 AM, Mykle Hansen <my...@mykle.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Searching the web, I’ve found several different suggestions —
> > either via ‘faust’, ‘faust2vst’, or ‘faust2faustvst’.
> >
> >
> > faustvst and faus2faustvst use two different architectures. The former
> is Yan Michalevsy’s older vst.cpp architecture which IIRC doesn’t require
> any extra dependencies except the VST SDK. This is also what the online
> compiler uses on OSX right now.
> >
> > The latter uses my own faustvst.cpp architecture (
> https://bitbucket.org/agraef/faust-vst) which has some extra features
> (most notably: multi-channel and MIDI tuning standard support), but
> requires a header file from the C++ Boost libraries (http://www.boost.org/),
> which can be installed from MacPorts (https://www.macports.org/, “boost”
> package). If you don’t need those extra features and Yan’s architecture
> works for you then just go with it, as it doesn’t require Boost.
> >
> > In either case you’ll need the VST SDK, which you can find at
> https://www.steinberg.net/en/company/developers.html. Yan’s faust2vst
> expects the header files to be installed specifically under
> /usr/local/include/vstsdk2.4, whereas faust2faustvst will search in various
> different common locations. Specifically, you’ll need the header files
> under VST_SDK/VST2_SDK/public.sdk/source/vst2.x/ as well as the entire
> VST_SDK/VST2_SDK/pluginterfaces directory in the vstsdk source zip, which
> should then go into the /usr/local/include/vstsdk2.4 directory.
> >
> > You need to be careful to copy the right files to the right location.
> The SDK sources are a mess of different header and source files from
> various different generations of the SDK, and Yan’s architecture expects
> them in that specific place, so your /usr/local/include/vstsdk2.4 directory
> should look like this:
> >
> > $ ls -R /usr/local/include/vstsdk2.4/
> > /usr/local/include/vstsdk2.4/:
> > aeffeditor.h audioeffect.h audioeffectx.h vstplugmain.cpp
> > audioeffect.cpp audioeffectx.cpp pluginterfaces
> >
> > /usr/local/include/vstsdk2.4/pluginterfaces:
> > vst2.x
> >
> > /usr/local/include/vstsdk2.4/pluginterfaces/vst2.x:
> > aeffect.h aeffectx.h vstfxstore.h
> >
> > If you put them elsewhere then you’ll have to edit the faust2vst script
> accordingly.
> >
> > When using my faustvst.cpp architecture, you can just copy the entire
> VST_SDK/VST2_SDK folder from the SDK zip to, e.g., /usr/local/include and
> be done with it.
> >
> >
> >
> > I’m not clear whether I’m supposed to get LLVM & clang from
> > Developer Tools or from MacPorts, or which compiler versions are
> required.
> > Can this be done entirely on the command line, or do I need to involve
> XCode?
> >
> >
> > All on the command line, but you’ll need to install Xcode and the
> command line tools to make all of that work. The LLVM that comes with Xcode
> should probably be all right, but I haven’t tried it so I cannot attest to
> it. Personally I’m still using LLVM 3.5 from MacPorts on the Mac, but Faust
> should be compatible with any LLVM version 3.5+ including the most recent
> 5.x versions.
> >
> > Installation instructions for Faust itself can be found in its README.
> Basically, you clone the git repo, populate the libraries submodule and
> then run make and make install:
> >
> > git clone https://github.com/grame-cncm/faust.git
> >
> > cd faust
> > git submodule update --init
> > make
> > sudo make install
> >
> > That requires Xcode and its command line utilities of course, but I
> guess that you have these up and running already. If not then you can find
> some instructions on the MacPorts website: https://guide.macports.org/#
> installing.xcode
> >
> >
> >
> > I hope I’m not presuming too much when I expect this to be possible.
> >
> >
> > Sure it’s possible, it just needs some setting up. We even have a
> version of faust in MacPorts, but it’s outdated at this point (mea culpa, I
> hope that I get around updating it over the weekend).
> >
> > Good luck!
> > Albert
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Albert Gr"af
> > Computer Music Research Group, JGU Mainz, Germany
> > Email: aggr...@gmail.com
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