How to make fully self contained plugins?

[djowel]

Hi,

I followed the Quick Start Guide, and so far everything seems to work fine. However, what I have is currently VST3 land AU plugins that load. the resulting CLAP dynamically. What I want are fully self-contained plugins, as the quick guide hinted:

"The VST3 loads the resulting CLAP dynamically, but there are other strategies to make fully self-contained plugins"

Can someone point me in the right direction or tell me how to do this?

Regards and thanks!

[baconpaul]

Sure

https://github.com/surge-synthesizer/conduit is a worked example of this. Basically you make your plugin into a static library then link it with each of the wrappers, including the clap, symmetrically.

[djowel]

Splendid! I'll have a look!

Awesome work, BTW!

[djowel]

So correct me if I am wrong. Basically:

1. Don't tagretize: CLAP_WRAPPER_DONT_ADD_TARGETS
2. Do the VST3 and AU targets manually, statically linked to the clap entry points.

Something else I am missing?

[baconpaul]

That's basically it yeah. Use the cmake methods to put what you want into your vst3, and the cmake methods will pull in the wrapper.

There's also a trick where the clap entry gets linked into every instance since it has the export symbol and in conduit at least we dlopen self to find the clap entry. There's some recent work on next to do that with a fully static clap entry.