Peter Geirnaert wrote:
> To start, I'm very pleased now that this popular program "SynthEdit
> <http://www.synthedit.com>" (version1.0) for making VST plugins
> is working  well with the latest wine version (1.0.0-1.64studio~etch1).

I'll test this program :), because I'm not fine with programming for
Linux and I need some applications that has to be programmed.

> with or without programming knowledge (and what language would be best
> to learn) ?

C and C++. I programmed for other OSs, most times using Assembler, but C
and C++ is better for Linux because of the APIs, but take a look at
LADSPA's homepage http://www.ladspa.org/.

"And here are some tools for generating plugins:

    * csLADSPA <http://www.ear.ie/csLADSPA.htm> allows plugins to be
      written with the Csound <http://www.csounds.com> programming language.
    * Faust <http://faust.grame.fr/> is a compiled DSP language that can
      be used to produce LADSPA plugins.
    * GDAM <http://gdam.ffem.org> provides facilities to generate
      plugins automatically from graphs of simple plugins."

C and C++ is a disaster, when programming for Linux. For me it was to
hard to do the makefiles and also experienced coders for Linux have the
same problem, see Ardour's homepage http://ardour.org/building :

    "SCons

    Ardour uses an excellent software build system called SCons
    <http://www.scons.org/>. Please refer to its web site for more
    detailled information and the SCons manual
    <http://www.scons.org/doc/HTML/scons-user/book1.html>.

    We switched to SCons because of the amazingly poor quality,
    consistency and overall design of the auto* tools traditionally used
    by Unix software projects. There comes a point in time where adding
    another 200 lines to a multi-thousand line shell script should be
    taken as a sign that something is wrong with the basic idea for the
    tool. SCons has proved itself entirely worthy of the few days of
    transition that were required.

    On the other hand, SCons is not without its problems, and we look
    forward to the emergence of variants such as |waf| in the future

    If you have any additional questions on SCons, please post them on
    the ardour-dev mailing list. ardour-users should not be bothered
    about it yet to not confuse normal users."

Cheers,
Ralf


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