Linux support

[nanoni17728]

Hi!

First of all thank you for your hard work. I’m currently using Linux (Ubuntu 20.10 more precisely) as my primary OS for making music. I’m also a programmer, so I’m opening this issue mostly for tracking purpose as I’ll be able to work on my own.

VSTs are supported on this platform so a major refactoring shouldn’t be needed. I have access to multiple Linux distributions too so I will be able to test other popular ones like Archlinux, and maybe package it as well so people could install it from their package manager. I could loo into CI/CD to streamline the building process too.

I’ll keep you updated :)

[tommitytom]

Hi there! A good place to start would be to take a look at the linux support in iPlug2. I beleive there is a branch/pull request that adds support. Then you'd need to fix up the premake scripts to support linux which shouldn't be too much of a problem. Let me know how you get on!

[Glaferg]

This would also be great!

[Ingvix]

Could I get a quick rundown on the current state of linux support, as the README does not seem to provide any information regarding it? There seems to be a linux branch with latest commit from last year and an ecs-linux one which was updated last week, though I don't even know what ecs stands for.

The most pressing question would be if I should be able to produce a working build for linux, be it VST or standalone, which I presume I could still hook up to my DAW, were I to start the hurdle of gathering the dependencies.