Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [ardour-users] jack_fst and gcc4

I'll go even a bit further. VSts are Windows programs and they should just work under Wine. Paul & Torben's time is probably better spent elsewhere. 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. My 2 cents, Mark