[ardour-users] shall we wait for VST or go with libfst?

[Brendan Spear]

Paul, I was planning on rebuilding my audio box to go with Linux and Ardour 
this weekend… however, I already own lots of VSTi’s I have purchased. I was 
planning to try out the libfst, but you just suggested on the email list to 
wait to you have that built in. I don’t mean to be rude or to rush you, but 
any idea on a timeline that VST may be built in? so I can gauge weather or 
not to mess with the fstlib stuff or not. (by the way from everything I have 
read and seen, Ardour looks amazing).
Thanks, Brendan

>From: Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>
>To: Hector Centeno <h.centeno at sympatico.ca>
>CC: ardour-users-ardour.org at lists.ardour.org
>Subject: Re: [ardour-users] building ardour
>Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:48:16 -0400
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> >ok, now is working but I had to build it without VST support. Did you
> >build ardour using the VST=1 flag?
> >
> >I struggled a little building the libfst (needed for VST support) but
> >finally I got it thanks to the help of someone at the wine IRC channel.
> >Now I wonder if the fix was that successful. We found that there is a -F
> >flag needed after --exe in the winebuild call. Someone at the wine IRC
> >helped me to find it. After that it built with no problems. The Makefile
> >inside the fst folder should read like this:
> >
> >$(LDPATH) $(WINEBUILD) -fPIC -o $@ --exe -F $(fst_exe_MODULE)
> >-m$(fst_exe_APPMODE) $(fst_exe_SPEC_SRCS:%=--spec %)
> >$(fst_exe_RC_SRCS:%.rc=%.res) $(fst_exe_OBJS) $(fst_exe_DLL_PATH)
> >$(WINE_DLL_PATH) $(GLOBAL_DLL_PATH) $(fst_exe_DLLS:%=-l%)
> >$(GLOBAL_DLLS:%=-l%)
> >
> >If you don't change it you get an error message from winebuild while
> >building libfst asking for naming the files using -F.
>
>you cannot use libfst with any current version of wine. please abandon
>attempts at using VST until i manage to get the new design for how to
>do this integrated into ardour. please.
>
>--p
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