Trying to compile this ancient software

[denilsonsa]

I spent quite some time trying to compile this ancient abandoned software. I managed to compile it, but it crashes when running.

If anyone wants to try, here are the "fixes" I've made:

• I took a look at the old Gentoo ebuild.
• Install dssi, and probably a few other dependencies.
• Install vst2sdk, the old deprecated VST2 SDK.
• Replace AEffEditor.hpp with aeffeditor.h at VstPlugin.h
• Replace the second return false with return NULL at ProcessingGraph.h
• Add -I "/usr/include/vst36" to DEPFLAGS
• Add -fpermissive and -std=c++03 and -D "VST_FORCE_DEPRECATED=0" to CFLAGS
• Figure out where to set those flags in a good way. For now, I just changed the autogenerated jost.make
• Replace va_copy with __va_copy at line 10738 of juce_amalgamated.cpp
• Replace if (index >= 0) with if (inputIndex >= 0 || outputIndex >= 0) at line 298186 of juce_amalgamated.cpp

These are not real fixes, just the bare minimum to make the code compile.

make CONFIG=Release
# A binary will be available at bin/jost

make CONFIG=Debug
# A binary will be available at bin/jost_debug

After all these steps, and after too many warning messages from the compiler.

When I run the Release binary, I immediately get an error:

ERROR: Program executed illegal instruction.. terminating

The Debug binary runs, but it is unstable.

Sidenote: Interestingly, this ancient JUCE version exposes the Alsa MIDI ports, while the newer JUCE code doesn't.

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Conclusion: you will have better luck running Carla (which supports all kinds of plugin formats) or the simpler Jalv (which only supports LV2).

[trebmuh]

Thanks for this feedback @denilsonsa .
I'll let this open in case of someone would want to continue this quest!