Not Even The Examples Work

[daniel]

The VST2 SDK had to be removed for legal changes in the License agreement.
Before October 2019 JUCE was allowed to bundle VST2 so all worked out of the box.

Since building and deploying VST2 plugins requires a special agreement with Steinberg (which you cannot get any more), you need to supply the VST2 SDK yourself.

See this thread:

The removal of JUCE’s embedded VST2 SDK

Hello JUCE users, Following Steinberg’s announcement that they are removing the VST2 components from the VST3 SDK https://www.steinberg.net/en/newsandevents/news/newsdetail/article/vst-3611-sdk-now-available-4906.html the JUCE team is also removing the VST2 header files from the JUCE repo. As of this commit https://github.com/WeAreROLI/JUCE/commit/a3566b8c1edac29997490143982cd2b2eb089ffa it is no longer possible to create VST2 plug-ins using JUCE’s embedded VST2 SDK. If you are an existing…