Building plugins: hints and tips for getting it all to work

#21

Necessary steps that used to be in the sticky here but are not in the current stickies, taken from post by adfernandes (http://www.juce.com/comment/291142#comment-291142)

The current Introjucer assumes that the following has been done:

  • Navigate to the /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer folder.
  • Create an Extras directory if said directory does not exist.
  • Change directory to the new /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Extras directory.
  • If a CoreAudio directory or symlink exists (with full path /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Extras/CoreAudio, remove it (back it up first, though!).
  • Create a symlink via sudo ln -sv /Library/Developer/CoreAudio /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Extras/
  • Note that modifying anything in the /Applications/Xcode.app directory can invalidate Xcode's digital signature, which may bring about strange behaviour with GateKeeper or the App Store. It has not been a problem for me as the digital signature seems to be validated only once during App Store installation... but you have been warned.

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#22

So I'm using the introjucer to make an audio plugin skeleton. I followed the instructions including selecting the build VST3 button and unselecting the build AU button.

The problem I'm having is that I don't think it is creating any vst's. The only thing that is shown in the MacOSX/build/Debug folder is a component file!

Some help would be appreciated

#23

That's normal. You can simply copy this component bundleĀ into the various plug-in folders and change the file suffix to.vst or .vst3. A customĀ build script runs at the end of the Xcode build process which should do this for you and you should be able to find the plug-ins in your home directory:Ā ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins

#24

Let me add that you need to create the "VST3" folder underĀ Ā "~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins" , if not present

#25

You can do what @fabian said, or you could also edit the script to copy the component to your Configuration folder with the appropriate extension (just like it does for the various plugin folders).

#26

This topic is deprecated. If you download the latest version of JUCE, a new plug-in project will work out of the box on OS X, no copying, no build-scripts no faffing around.