16 Oct
2005
16 Oct
'05
2:18 p.m.
Mark Knecht wrote:
>I'd like to see every Linux Audio user
interested in this subject
>start pressing the Wine folks to support this themselves. Let's pay
>attention to the Windows apps that can host VSTs and VSTi's. Acid Pro
>is a commercial one that comes to mind. Fruity Loops, etc. There's got
>to be free VST loaders out there for Windows. Older versions of Acid
>install and run fine under Wine but do not handle VSTs very well. The
>new versions don't install or run.
>
>Putting together yet another hack outside of Wine that will run for 1
>year and then die when gcc5 comes out would be disappointing. Let's
>get the Wine folks to support this.
>
>Please enter apps in the Wine AppDB and enter test results in Wine's
>Bugzilla. If there are enough of us entering 100's of apps then
>they'll pay attention. Maybe not fast, but I believe they will.
>
>
Hear the man. This issue is really as much a matter for the WINE folk as
it is for us. VSTs are Windows applications, WINE intends to run Windows
applications.
Torben Hohn wrote:
i still believe, that the current xfst approach is a
clean solution.
it does no more use the libwinelib hack.
its a wine app which uses jack natively.
An interesting approach.
I downloaded the 0.3 package and built it under Planet CCRMA's RH9, WINE
20050725. What I had to do:
1) Fixed aeffectx.h by commenting out lines 918 through 932 and
added "struct" to the beginning of line 949 to read "struct
VstFileType".
2) Linked /lib/libuuid.so.1 to /lib/libuuid.so.
It built without problems. There is no 'make install', so I ran xfst
from its own directory.
The first time I ran it my X server crashed, probaby due to memory and
CPU shortcomings of my PII 366 laptop. I restarted X and ran './xfst
../vstplugins/Crystal.dll'. The plugin GUI appears and its various
controls seem to work all right. I connected a virtual keyboard to it,
played a note, and JACK zombifies the plugin.
I've only tried running the Crystal plugin, so this test doesn't mean
much. I'll try upgrading WINE to see if that matters.
so someone should step forward and try to get xfst
outthere soon. with webpage, README etc.
I need to update the VST/Linux tutorial and I'd like to include
information regarding xfst. Success stories are welcome.
I'll try building and installing it tomorrow on my desktop machine.
Best,
dp