As I previously posted here and in the ChangeLog, you now need to download the VST SDK version 2.4 from Steinberg and copy the entire tree into the place where SConstruct expects it (i.e. into frontends\CsoundVST) before building CsoundVST or the vst4cs host opcodes.

This is is to satisfy both the Steinberg license which forbids redistribution of the VST SDK, and SourceForge policy, which requires redistribution of all sources to downloadable binary packages. 

I was responsible for putting the VST SDK in there. It did not bother me very much that we were violating the VST SDK license, since I had no intention of doing anything that would harm Steinberg in any way and do not think we were doing so, and I was not aware of the SourceForge policy, although I probably should have been. But when the issue of Linux packaging for Csound including CsoundAC came up, this became more serious and I decided to fix it. In other words, I am willing to fudge the licensing issue as long as it is just Csound, but I am not willing to lead somebody else, like Debian or Ubuntu, into doing so.

We cannot distribute the VST SDK headers.

As I understand it, we are free to host and distribute sources that require the VST SDK as long as we do not distribute binaries built from those sources.

Hope this clarifies things,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Victor Lazzarini 
>Sent: Aug 17, 2007 9:43 AM
>To: Developer discussions 
>Subject: [Cs-dev] VST host opcodes and FLTK
>
>Would someone be able to explain what is the situation
>with the VST opcodes. They cannot be built at the moment
>because the headers are gone; are we dropping them from
>the releases, or are the headers going to be put back in
>somewhere else?
>
>I just wanted to know because I want to fix the scons
>build of FLTK widgets on Windows and unless I know what is
>going to happen, I can't.
>
>Victor
>Victor Lazzarini
>Music Technology Laboratory
>Music Department
>National University of Ireland, Maynooth
>
>
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