I don't know about the build error,
but you should not need to build csoundVST to be able to use the
csound API from Python.
Maybe there's just a bug in csoundSetKillXYinCallback ?

Did you try running for example the exController example ?

Oeyvind


2007/11/1, Hector Centeno <hcengar@gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to build Csound with Csound VST in Linux and using a checkout
> from CVS. First it asked for the VST sdk files which I copied into the
> Csound source directory, but then I can't get pass this errors:
>
> g++ -o frontends/CsoundVST/csoundvst_main.o -c -fexceptions
> -Wall -g -O2 -DLINUX -DPIPES -DHAVE_LIBSNDFILE=1016 -DHAVE_FLTK -DSDFT
> -DBETA -DUSE_DOUBLE -DHAVE_SOCKETS -DHAVE_FCNTL_H -DHAVE_UNISTD_H
> -DHAVE_STDINT_H -DHAVE_SYS_TIME_H -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H -DHAVE_TERMIOS_H
> -DHAVE_SOCKETS -DHAVE_DIRENT_H -I. -IH -I/usr/include/fltk- 1.1
> -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include
> -Ifrontends/CsoundVST -Iinterfaces
> frontends/CsoundVST/csoundvst_main.cpp
> ./pluginterfaces/vst2.x/aeffect.h:125: error: expected `)'
> before '*' token
> ./pluginterfaces/vst2.x/aeffect.h:126: error: expected `)'
> before '*' token
> ./pluginterfaces/vst2.x/aeffect.h:127: error: expected `)'
> before '*' token
> ./pluginterfaces/vst2.x/aeffect.h:128: error: expected `)'
> before '*' token
> ./pluginterfaces/vst2.x/aeffect.h:129: error: expected `)'
> before '*' token
> ./pluginterfaces/vst2.x/aeffect.h:130: error: expected `)'
> before '*' token
> ./pluginterfaces/vst2.x/aeffect.h:149: error:
> 'AEffectDispatcherProc' does not name a type
> ./pluginterfaces/vst2.x/aeffect.h:152: error:
> 'AEffectProcessProc' does not name a type
> ./pluginterfaces/vst2.x/aeffect.h:155: error:
> 'AEffectSetParameterProc' does not name a type
> ./pluginterfaces/vst2.x/aeffect.h:158: error:
> 'AEffectGetParameterProc' does not name a type
> ./pluginterfaces/vst2.x/aeffect.h:183: error:
> 'AEffectProcessProc' does not name a type
> ./pluginterfaces/vst2.x/aeffect.h:187: error:
> 'AEffectProcessDoubleProc' does not name a type
> ./public.sdk/source/vst2.x/audioeffect.h:27: error:
> expected `)' before 'audioMaster'
> ./public.sdk/source/vst2.x/audioeffect.h:155: error:
> 'audioMasterCallback' does not name a type
> ./public.sdk/source/vst2.x/audioeffectx.h:27: error:
> expected `)' before 'audioMaster'
> frontends/CsoundVST/CsoundVST.hpp:84: error: expected `)'
> before 'audioMaster'
> frontends/CsoundVST/csoundvst_main.cpp: In function 'int
> main(int, char**)':
> frontends/CsoundVST/csoundvst_main.cpp:42: error:
> 'CreateCsoundVST_' was not declared in this scope
> frontends/CsoundVST/csoundvst_main.cpp:43: warning: format
> '%x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'void*'
> frontends/CsoundVST/csoundvst_main.cpp:49: warning: unused
> variable 'status'
> scons: *** [frontends/CsoundVST/csoundvst_main.o] Error 1
> scons: building terminated because of errors.
>
> Do I need the VST SDK to build Csound VST? I thought it was only needed for
> vst4cs (which I'm not building). I'm using the VST SDK v 2.4 since that's
> the one that had the same directory structure that the CsoundVST source
> looks for, so I assumed 2.4 is the right version to use.
>
> I'm trying to build CsoundVST because I want to start learning to build
> GUI's with Python and calling Csound from it. Do I have to build CsoundVST
> in order to have the Csound Python API? I tried importing the csound library
> using an installation of Csound without CsoundVST and I got this:
>
> >>> import csnd
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/csnd.py", line 7,
> in <module>
>     import _csnd
> ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_csnd.so:
> undefined symbol: csoundSetKillXYinCallback
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Hector
>
>
>