Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Mustajuuri -> LADSPA plugins.
From: David Olofson (david_AT_gardena.net)
Date: Sat Mar 31 2001 - 21:47:11 EEST
On Thursday 29 March 2001 19:33, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:14:39PM +0200, David Olofson wrote:
> > IMHO, pure DSP plugins should load and run on any machine with
> > the right CPU, regardless of operating system, provided someone
> > writes the required object file loaders. (That's actually
> > theoretically possible no matter what the plugin does, but it's
> > *slightly* harder to emulate an entire OS than to just provide
> > what's required by plugins according to the LADSPA API spec. ;-)
>
> Well, the plugin would still be able to do its DSP stuff, just
> there wouldn't be a custom GUI.
Provided that you can load the binary despite the unresolved symbols,
and that the plugin really does run without the GUI... (That is, I'm
arguing against anything along the lines of having code for various
toolkits in the same binary as the DSP plugin.)
//David
.- M A I A -------------------------------------------------.
| Multimedia Application Integration Architecture |
| A Free/Open Source Plugin API for Professional Multimedia |
`----------------------> http://www.linuxaudiodev.com/maia -'
.- David Olofson -------------------------------------------.
| Audio Hacker - Open Source Advocate - Singer - Songwriter |
`--------------------------------------> david_AT_linuxdj.com -'
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28 : Sat Apr 07 2001 - 15:56:55 EEST