This is on OSX.
The “enable copy plugin step” fails when using the default options and when using the entire pathname. Here are my errors:
Copying "PluginName.vst3" to "Users/MyUserName/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/"
make[2]: cmake: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [PluginName.vst3/Contents/MacOS/PluginName] Error 1
make[2]: *** Deleting file `PluginName.vst3/Contents/MacOS/PluginName'
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/VST3.dir/all] Error 2
Copying "PluginName.component" to "Users/MyUserName/Library/Audio/Plug- Ins/Components/"
make[2]: cmake: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [PluginName.component/Contents/MacOS/PluginName] Error 1
make[2]: *** Deleting file `PluginName.component/Contents/MacOS/PluginName'
The folders exist, and the build works fine with XCode.
At the same time, CLion builds my plugin VSTs as folders with the label .vst/.vst3 instead of as bundles, and are not recognized by any host. This happens whether or not I am using the “enable copy step” option.
Bumping this? Still can’t build VST or VST3 with CLion on OSX.
Steps to reproduce:
- In Projucer, create new project, select Audio Plugin
- Select Xcode and CLion exporters from the wizard
- Select “VST” and “VST3”
- Open the project in CLion
- Select “BUILD ALL”
Error messages:
Copying "MyPlugin.component" to "/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/"
Error copying directory from ".../MyPlugin/Builds/CLion/cmake-build-debug/MyPlugin.component" to "/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/MyPlugin.component".
make[2]: *** [MyPlugin.component/Contents/MacOS/MyPlugin] Error 1
make[2]: *** Deleting file `MyPlugin.component/Contents/MacOS/MyPlugin'
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/AU.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Copying "MyPlugin.vst" to "/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/"
Error copying directory from "../MyPlugin/Builds/CLion/cmake-build-debug/MyPlugin.vst" to "/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/MyPlugin.vst".
make[2]: *** [MyPlugin.vst/Contents/MacOS/MyPlugin] Error 1
make[2]: *** Deleting file `MyPlugin.vst/Contents/MacOS/MyPlugin'
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/VST.dir/all] Error 2
The issue looks like it’s in the plugin copy step, but after disabling it the .vst build still produces a folder, not a bundle. I’m now noticing that the .vst bundle is missing info.plist, PkgInfo, and Resources folder which I can see are in the .vst bundle when built with XCode
I think can workaround this by creating a post build script in the CMakeLists.txt, but then I’d have to put it there every single time I update the Projucer project…
This looks like a bug in CLion, $USER and $HOME directories are empty in the CLion terminal session.
Workaround is to use absolute paths in the projucer project for the plugin binary directories.
edit: this only fixes the plugin copy step, vst is still not building correctly.
edit 2: in the CLion terminal session, $USER and $HOME variables are empty when CLion is launched by the projucer (but not when launched normally). Not sure if this is a bug on the ROLI’s end or Jetbrains. So a second workaround is to let the projucer create the CMake project, then open CLion outside the projucer and load the project manually.
