[LAD] minimal LV2

Olivier Guilyardi list at samalyse.com
Sun Jun 13 15:46:20 UTC 2010


On 06/13/2010 01:13 AM, Igor Brkic wrote:
> On 13.06.2010 00:20, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
>> I've been reading the LV2 docs for the N-th time, as well
>> as lots of examples, and it all remains complete completely
>> incomprehensible to my problably too primitive mind.
>>
>> So I have a simple question:
>>
>> What is the absolute minimum required to define an LV2
>> plugin (in other words, which files, and what do they
>> need to contain) assuming the following:
>>
>> - The plugin requires one 'extension'.
>>
>> - This extension defines everything except whatever is
>>    required to enable a host to discover the existence
>>    of the plugin on a system.
>>
>> - In other words the extension defines how the host is
>>    supposed to instantiate and call the plugin, the way
>>    ports and parameter are described, etc. etc.
>>
>> Ciao,
>>
> 
> I found this tutorial http://ll-plugins.nongnu.org/lv2pftci/ very
> helpful. I can't say that now I know everything, but it's a good start.

lol :)

"This is a LV2 plugin programming guide for the complete idiot using a set of
C++ classes. If you are not a complete idiot, you may want to read the LV2 spec
and figure it out for yourself."

--
  Olivier



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