Re: [LAU] [ANN] Qtractor 0.1.1 (futile duchess) released!

From: Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Feb 18 2008 - 17:14:30 EET

On Mon, February 18, 2008 15:04, Cesare Marilungo wrote:
> Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
>
>> hi Chris,
>>
>> On Mon, February 18, 2008 13:49, Chris Cannam wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 16/02/2008, Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> James Stone wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Regarding the vst compiling, could you not use the free and open
>>>>> source headers from Javier Serrano Polo used by dssi-vst and lmms?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> this has been already asked and answered elsewhere... here:
>>>> http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/66#comment-1649
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> If your only requirement is to be able to include aeffect.h and
>>> aeffectx.h, you should just be able to drop in the "vestige" headers
>>> from LMMS or dssi-vst. Doesn't matter whether it's intended to
>>> support Win32 or native Linux plugins. You won't get support for
>>> everything in VST, but a redistributable binary that supports much of
>>> it has got to be worthwhile, surely.
>>>
>>> The author claimed in LMMS list postings that these headers were
>>> reverse engineered from working VST host and plugin code without
>>> seeing the original SDK or accepting the Steinberg SDK license.
>>> Obviously I cannot
>>> know whether that is really the case, but judging from the code, I
>>> think it is plausible. Until anyone produces any evidence otherwise,
>>> I for one
>>> would be happy to give it the benefit of the doubt.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> simple as it could ever be: it does not build with the vestige headers
>> alone. there are somethings missing. i know that it would suffice to
>> copy-and-paste those things from the original steinberg headers, but...
>> you know, i just can't, nor have the skill, to do that with my eyes
>> shut ;)
>>
>>
>> eheh
>>
> We all know that you already took a look at the original VST SDK headers
> - at least once, didn't you? You're banned for life to write your own
> reverse engineered version.
>
> Your only option is to write a small app to memset to zeros that part of
> your memory. Backup your brain first. Also, be sure your application
> doesn't reset the part of your brain in which you stored the location of
> your backup.
>

whom are you talking to? me or the lmms guy? i assure you i didn't look at
it twice (but my gcc has:)

byee

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