Hi Kjetil:
Thank you for your reply, I appreciate your insights. Some further comments:
Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote:
I'm mostly running RH9, occasionally FC3 and Demudi. I've only seriously tested VST support under RH9. I can easily imagine other problems rising from GCC updates.Vstserver does actually works very fine with newer versions of wine, at least the ones I have tried. But for compiling up vstserver, you need the 9.12.2003 version. And worse, the 9.12.2003 version doesn't work with newer versions of Linux, or something like that. (Ie. the workaround is that you first have to install wine 9.12.2003 to be able to compile vstserver, then install a newer versions of wine. The plugins will then use the newest version of wine).
I think there exist a patch or something for the 9.12.2003 version of wine to make it compile with newer versions of linux (not sure which part). If anyone has such a patch, it would be nice if someone sent it to me. I'm still on Redhat 8 myself, so I don't know what the problem is exactly.
Well, at least the hope of continuation is there. Some plugins work under vsti that will not run under jack_fst.I think dssi-vst looks very nice too (although I haven't tried it), and its very similar to the way vstserver works. It should not be much work to make vsti, ladspavst and k_vst~ work with dssi-vst instead of vstserver. But I don't have the time / other more interesting projects.
Users would love to see that happen. Obviously the use of VST plugins is a great incentive for many musicians wishing to switch to Linux, so a stable set of sources would be most welcome.It would be nice if the three projects (or at least fst and dssi-vst) was coordinated to use only _one_ version of wine, and that this version of wine is downloaded from one place, for example a sourceforge project place.
But for this to happen, some person needs to step up, set up a sourceforge
account, do some coding, coordinate the coders, release things, do
some work. It might not seem like Thorben, Paul, Chris or myself is
the right person right now. Perhaps there is some coder with some free
time that wants to do this stuff?
Best,
dp
