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On 6/20/07, Jan Depner  wrote:

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> On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 17:07 -0700, Tim Howard wrote:

> > On 6/19/07, Jan Depner  wrote:

> > > Tim,

> > >

> > >     I've been thinking about trying out some of the VST stuff.  Can you

> > > direct me to some information on how to get it working under Linux?  I

> > > know I'll need Wine but that's about the extent of my knowledge.

> > >

> > > Jan

> >

> > Basically, the way I got VSTs to work is as follows:

> >

> > Install WINE  (I used the FC5 RPMs)

> > Download the VST SDK  (not exactly sure where this is now, but I can

> > get you the ZIP file if you need it...)

> > Download the latest Ardour source tarball

> > Copy the VST SDK zip into ardour-*/lib/fst (or something like that)

> > Compile Ardour with the VST=1 flag

> >

> > Then, you place your VST DLLs in /usr/local/lib/vst, and that's it.

> > When Ardour starts up, it will "check out" the VSTs in this folder.

> > Having weird/dysfunctional VSTs can prevent Ardour from starting up,

> > so it's a good idea to load them in one at a time.

> >

>

>     Did the above but I get:

>

> /usr/lib/ardour2/ardour-2.0.2: symbol lookup

> error: /usr/lib/ardour2/libardour.so: undefined symbol: fst_init

>

> when I try to run it.

>

Are you trying to start it with "ardour2" or with "ardourvst"?
-TimH