Dave Phillips wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > >>> I'd like to see every Linux Audio user interested in this subject >>> start pressing the Wine folks to support this themselves. Let's pay >>> attention to the Windows apps that can host VSTs and VSTi's. Acid Pro >>> is a commercial one that comes to mind. Fruity Loops, etc. There's got >>> to be free VST loaders out there for Windows. Older versions of Acid >>> install and run fine under Wine but do not handle VSTs very well. The >>> new versions don't install or run. >>> >>> Putting together yet another hack outside of Wine that will run for 1 >>> year and then die when gcc5 comes out would be disappointing. Let's >>> get the Wine folks to support this. >>> >>> Please enter apps in the Wine AppDB and enter test results in Wine's >>> Bugzilla. If there are enough of us entering 100's of apps then >>> they'll pay attention. Maybe not fast, but I believe they will. >>> >> > Hear the man. This issue is really as much a matter for the WINE folk > as it is for us. VSTs are Windows applications, WINE intends to run > Windows applications. > > Torben Hohn wrote: > >> i still believe, that the current xfst approach is a clean solution. >> it does no more use the libwinelib hack. >> its a wine app which uses jack natively. >> >> > An interesting approach. > > I downloaded the 0.3 package and built it under Planet CCRMA's RH9, > WINE 20050725. What I had to do: > > 1) Fixed aeffectx.h by commenting out lines 918 through 932 and > added "struct" to the beginning of line 949 to read "struct VstFileType". > 2) Linked /lib/libuuid.so.1 to /lib/libuuid.so. > > It built without problems. There is no 'make install', so I ran xfst > from its own directory. > > The first time I ran it my X server crashed, probaby due to memory and > CPU shortcomings of my PII 366 laptop. I restarted X and ran './xfst > ../vstplugins/Crystal.dll'. The plugin GUI appears and its various > controls seem to work all right. I connected a virtual keyboard to it, > played a note, and JACK zombifies the plugin. > > I've only tried running the Crystal plugin, so this test doesn't mean > much. I'll try upgrading WINE to see if that matters. > > >> so someone should step forward and try to get xfst outthere soon. >> with webpage, README etc. >> >> > I need to update the VST/Linux tutorial and I'd like to include > information regarding xfst. Success stories are welcome. > > I'll try building and installing it tomorrow on my desktop machine. > > Best, > > dp > > xfst worked great with some VSTis I've tested so far: Crystal ran well NIs Kontakt Sampler 1.5 runs nearly like a native linux app and is perfectly jackified. NIs Reaktor Session has had major problems with it's menu structure, freezed to some degree and than didn't recognize mouse-clicks My Setup: Debian Testing (kernel 2.6.13) Wine 20050628 (winxp mode) xfst-0.3 Here is what I did, to make it working. Download the vst-sdk. http://ygrabit.steinberg.de/users/ygrabit/public_html/vstsdk/Download/VST%20Plug-Ins%20SDK%202.3/ Copy the required header files from vstsdk2.3/source/common/ to xfst/vst directory. (AEffect.h and aeffectx.h) Patch xfst/vst/aeffectx.h I'v created a diff, appended as attachment. Apply it like this: patch aeffectx.h aeffectx.h.diff --verbose compile xfst: make Start jackd Start xfstified vst: ./xfst ~/.wine/c/Program\ Files/Vstplugins/Kontakt.dll Regards, Emanuel start of aeffectx.h.diff ####################################### --- aeffectx.h.orig 2005-10-16 17:30:00.000000000 +0200 +++ aeffectx.h 2005-10-17 15:27:11.000000000 +0200 @@ -913,6 +913,9 @@ //---Used by audioMasterOpenFileSelector----------- +/* +// commented out for xfst +// struct VstFileType { VstFileType (char* _name, char *_macType, char *_dosType, char *_unixType = 0, char *_mimeType1 = 0, char *_mimeType2 = 0) @@ -938,6 +941,9 @@ char mimeType2[128]; }; +*/ + + struct VstFileSelect { long command; // see enum kVstFileLoad.... @@ -946,8 +952,12 @@ long macCreator; // optional: 0 = no creator long nbFileTypes; // nb of fileTypes to used - VstFileType *fileTypes; // list of fileTypes - + + + // commented out for xfst + //struct struct VstFileType *fileTypes; // list of fileTypes + + char title[1024]; // text display in the file selector's title char *initialPath; // initial path ################################### end of aeffectx.h.diff -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: aeffectx.h.diff Type: text/x-patch Size: 903 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/attachments/20051017/d98982aa/aeffectx.h.bin
