[LAD] VST SDK2.4 issue

[victor]

But I thought I read some mention in the VST SDK manual about
linux plugins being '.so', which would imply they at least acknowledged
its use in that platform. It might have been unix rather than linux.

Victor
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Davis" <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>
To: "victor" <Victor.Lazzarini at nuim.ie>
Cc: "Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas" <pedro.lopez.cabanillas at gmail.com>; "Rui Nuno 
Capela" <rncbc at rncbc.org>; <linux-audio-dev at lists.linuxaudio.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: [LAD] VST SDK2.4 issue


> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:46 PM, victor<Victor.Lazzarini at nuim.ie> wrote:
>> But the silly thing I think is that the macro is defined for __GNUC__
>> and it clearly does not work with it. If I undefine that token, it's 
>> good.
>>
>> I don't like the idea of touch the sdk headers; I thought really they
>> should work out of the box.
>
> steinberg did not write the VST SDK headers to work with gcc. they did
> port to IRIX, and so there are a couple of hints of unix-land
> compatibility (e.g. avoiding the use of "main" as an exported symbol).
> however, you need to accept that these headers target only windows and
> osx compilers, not linux ones.