Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] VST plug-ins for Linux?
From: Paul Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Tue Sep 11 2001 - 17:13:33 EEST
>> What is required to support VST plugins on Linux/x86 is twofold:
>>
>> 1) a way of executing a dynamically linked object that was
>> built for Windows/x86.
>> 2) a library that implements the libvstgui API
>
>Couldn't you apply (1) to execute the Windows DLL version of libvstgui equally
>well as you can execute the actual Windows DLL plug-in?
Not really. For (1), its unlikely (and highly unrecommended by
Steinberg) that the code will make any Win32 API calls. For (2), the
code is entirely about making Win32 API calls, and so to support it,
you'd need all of Wine. If you implement the libvstgui API, which is
not that hard, you could skip the Wine part of things, which is really
the whole point of libvstgui.
Unfortunately, quite a few VST plugin authors think it *is* OK to make
Win/MacOS calls in their plugins, and hence supporting such plugs
under Linux would always require full Wine emulation if the authors
would not produce versions with these calls removed.
--p
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