Post build script in jucer

General JUCE discussion
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So I have a plugin now that I want to release. Currently it has a bug when I close the editor it decides to hang or crash ableton since moving to VT’s for state. Reading up I’ve seen a lot about SliderAttachment being a primary culprit though re-ordering the attachment members to bottom of header file hasn’t remedied my situation.

Now I’m going down to debugging in ableton by attaching Live’s process and initialising VST. So I should be able to figure this out. Though if anyone has any instinct on a remedy would love to hear it

My main question is in Projucer is the a way of adding post build script to copy the DLL direct into my VstFolder from either debug or release. I can do this in VS but the project files get overwritten if I add something in Projucer and it breaks the workflow and so I have to re-add script each time I say add a file.

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I guess you missed the “Enable Plugin Copy Step” and “VST Binary Location” fields in Projucer.

See https://juce.com/discover/stories/projucer-manual#7.4.3-visual-studio-configuration-settings for more details.

EDIT: there is also the “Post-build Command” field, if you need to do more than just copying the plugin binary.

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Ah cool that’s just building pretty much identical to what I had in.

when debugging it only seems to be ui thread stuff that comes through the DBG("") macro. Is this normal?

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The DBG should print regardless on which thread it is called.

N.B. accessing the console is a potentially blocking call, so you should remove it from audio thread after testing (or in release builds they are removed anyway).
Just mentioning it in case or for unexperienced readers.