Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA Version 1 Released
From: Richard Guenther (richard.guenther_AT_student.uni-tuebingen.de)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 13:05:45 EEST
Hi!
You will probably want to have a libladspa.so which can easily contain
common used code and helpers.
Richard.
On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Stephane Conversy wrote:
> with the examples given, I got:
>
> $ ls -l plugins/
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 conversy ihm 24896 Apr 2 17:20 delay.so*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 conversy ihm 25120 Apr 2 17:20 filter.so*
>
> now if I
> $ cat delay.c filter.c > foo.c
>
> and tweak a little foo.c to make it compile I got:
>
> $ ls -l plugins/
> total 168
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 conversy ihm 24896 Apr 2 17:20 delay.so*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 conversy ihm 25120 Apr 2 17:20 filter.so*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 conversy ihm 27168 Apr 2 17:22 foo.so*
>
> What can we say:
> plugins total size is linear with the number of files
> if all plug-ins were in a single file, then plugins total size would be
> equal to A+nB where n is the number of files.
>
> I know plug-ins are easier to maintain when written in seperated file,
> and with this scheme, we allow binary-only plugins.
>
> One remark though: if plugin implementors could be kind enough
> to make sure that global variables, functions, #define etc. are unique
> across plugins, then we could do something like a 'cat', and
> have only a small binary file for all plugins.
>
> I don't know if it's worth the effort (after all we have a lot
> of RAM and HD space by now)... With C++, namespaces and no #define
> that would be easy.
>
> About VST2: I filled a form to get the sdk. Am I supposed
> to receive an ack from steinberg and then an url ?
>
> --
> Stéphane Conversy
> http://www-ihm.lri.fr/~conversy/
> mailto:conversy_AT_lri.fr
>
-- Richard Guenther <richard.guenther_AT_student.uni-tuebingen.de> WWW: http://www.anatom.uni-tuebingen.de/~richi/ The GLAME Project: http://www.glame.de/
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