Post build step on MacOS no longer working

Audio Plugins
1

I’m trying to update a plugin that I haven’t built since 2015 or so. I updated to version 6.0.4 (from version 3.0.2 I think) and I’m able to get the code to compile, but the post build script fails. After some investigating it appears that the script expects the VST3 plugin to be a folder, while the compile stage is producing an actual VST3 file.

Here is the snippet that’s failing.

if [ $copyVST3 -gt 0 ]; then
  VST3Dir=~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3
  mkdir -p "$VST3Dir"
  VST3=$VST3Dir/$PRODUCT_NAME.vst3
  if [ -d "$VST3" ]; then
    rm -r "$VST3"
  fi

  echo "Copying $original to VST3 folder $VST3 ..."

  cp -r "$original" "$VST3"
  sed -i "" -e 's/TDMwPTul/BNDLPTul/g' "$VST3/Contents/PkgInfo"
  sed -i "" -e 's/TDMw/BNDL/g' "$VST3/Contents/$INFOPLIST_FILE"
  codesign -s "<certificate>" "$VST3"

fi

It appears that the method for creating the VSTs has changed at some point but I’m not sure how to get the script working again. Any help would be appreciated.

Mike

2

As far as I remember, with the latest JUCE versions VST3 are now built as bundles (similar to AAX). I’m still on 7.0.3 and VST3 are still single files, so I can’t help more with this.

3

I’m actually still on 6.0.4. I haven’t been able to move to 7 yet because of other issues. I’m hoping to get this resolved first.