Paul Davis:
>
> 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.
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