[linux-audio-user] Re: Re: Interview with EnergyXT Developer - Linux-audio-user

18 Nov 2006

Paul Davis:
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 On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 08:44 +0100, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
  Fons Adriaensen:

 On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:27:54PM -0500, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:

  I think one good thing that is coming out of this
is that the creator has
 apparently convinced some VST makers to recompile their VSTs for Linux as
 well. So, not all that is commercial is necessarily evil... 
 What does that mean, a VST compiled for Linux ? Will it work without
 a Windoze emulator ?

 Sure, many vst plugins either don't have a gui, or are based on toolsets
 that are available for linux as well, such as juce, vstgui and fltk.
 (I've been reading the vst development list for some years) 
 vstgui is not really available for linux at this time. theoretically
 there is a motif backend, but it seems that hardly anyone uses it or
 even attempts to make sure that it works with the latest changes to
 vstgui.

Yeah, you are right. Didn't think enough before posting.

...
  i think that the number of vst plugins using JUCE or
FLTK can be counted
 on the fingers of one person's hands.

Maybe, but you also have qt, fox, wxwindows and others that might be used.

Anyhow, at least theres a bunch of gui-less vst plugins, so you need many 
hands to count all of the plugins that doesn't require more than a 
new makefile and a few #ifdefs here and there to recompile for linux.