Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] VST plug-ins for Linux?
From: DAVID G MATTHEWS (dgm4+@pitt.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 11 2001 - 20:08:01 EEST
Wouldn't having to run plugins with Wine totally kill any hope for
low-latency, except on maybe a dual 1.2-Ghz box?
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Paul Davis wrote:
> >> 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?
> 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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