[LAU] problems running vsthost

[Graham Biswell]

On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 17:15 +0200, Dragan Noveski wrote:
> hi list,
> some times ago i installed 'dssi-vst-0.4' from source and i was able to 
> run vst-plugins with a command like:
> 
> vsthost /home/nowhiskey/vst/Syntar.dll
> 
> now this state changed, if i try to run that command, the plugin gui 
> will appear in the screen, but than close again:
> 
> nowhiskey at murija2:~$ vsthost /home/nowhiskey/vst/Syntar.dll
...
> dssi-vst-server[1]: created audio thread
> vsthost: signal 17 received, exiting
> ERROR: Remote VST plugin communication failure
> Remote VST plugin audio thread: returning
> nowhiskey at murija2:~$
> 
> 
> the only thing i changed here in the meantime, was updating alsa to 
> v1.0.14-rc3, so i am not sure, but i think that this is some 
> alsa-uncompability problem.
> 
> jackd is v0.103.0 and wine is v0.9.34, but the same issue, if i 
> recompile to wine v0.9.28.

I've noticed the same here. The problem appears to be an incompatibility
with jack 0.103. Try downgrading to jack 0.102, that fixes it for me.

> another information, i tried recompiling the 'dssi-vst', but i get an 
> error in make:
> 
> nowhiskey at murija2:~/software/nove/vsthost/dssi-vst-0.4$ make
...
> VstInt32, VstInt32, VstIntPtr, void*, float)':
> dssi-vst-server.cpp:739: error: 'audioMasterPinConnected' was not 
> declared in this scope

Try removing the 4 lines in dssi-vst-server.cpp for the case statement
that references that define (739-742). It only prints debug output.