i386 deprecated!?!?!

[Christoph Hart]

Yes and you need to do the same thing with the projects Projucer file.

HISE creates a temporary projucer file which is then used to create the actual IDE projects for each platform. If you click export, everything is handled through a batch script behind the scenes.

In your case, you must click export, then wait until the compilation starts, abort the compilation, open the projucer file called "AutogeneratedProject.jucer" in your projects' Binary subfolder, then proceed like you would compile HISE.

If you don't want the Debug version, choose "Build for profiling", that is XCode speak for the release version.

[Lindon]

@Christoph-Hart OK thanks I will give all that a go...

[Lindon]

@Christoph-Hart OK this is SOOO frustrating...

I open HISE on the Mac,
load my project,
start the compile,
abort the compile,
go open the AutogeneratedProject.jucer file,
set to 64-bit Intel,
save and open xcode,
Start the compile
Everything seems to work fine.

Now where in heavens name is the compiled vst plugin?

projucer tells me its in $HOME/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST

but that is empty.

Ok some random attempts by me:

I turned OFF Support32 Bit Mac OS
I ran the Export command again for VST
it seemed to work all the way thru...

There is still nothing in the VST folder, but now the
{PROJECT}/Binaries/Builds/MacOSX/build/Release folder has these files in it:

ChromaticPanFlute.vst (an alias)
libChromaticPanFlute.a

are these it?

Why anyone would say the Mac is intuitive I have no idea....

[ustk]

@Lindon I can't help much I'm afraid, but you said you got an alias. Where is it pointing to?

[hisefilo]

@Lindon try right click over the alias and.. Show original. Hise compiler places my plugins into my user vst folder

[hisefilo]

@Christoph-Hart maybe a more intuitive way is to set hise to place compiled plugins into binaries/compiled on Mac? Like it does on win

[Christoph Hart]

Yes, the default location is the user's plugin directory:

~/Libraries/Application Support/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST

There is no way on Mac to point to a VST directory (on Windows it can be any path), so on macOS you're pretty much limited to this path and it's almost identical twin without write permissions /Libraries/Application Support/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST. That's why there is a plugin-copy step.

[hisefilo]

@Christoph-Hart ohhh! I see. MacOS is kind of weird on plugin locations. I got some under system folder. Some others on user folder. (Packed installlers i.e. kontakt places into system, asking for admin pass obviously)

[Christoph Hart]

And it all gets even more fun if you try to load it in a sandboxed host, then everything outside the Music folder isn't accessible.

[Lindon]

@hisefilo OK well I tried that and it seems its in a folder called VST(who knows where that is hiding on a disk I cant even get to the root of...) - well there's a file in there called ChromaticPanFlute.vst - which I assume is the VST plug-in...

though worryingly VST also has a folder in it called ChromaticPanFlute Debug.vst -- which has a folder structure but no content...

[Lindon]

@Christoph-Hart sadly when I use the Go menu in the Finder it tells me there is no folder called Libraries or Audio

when I go to the Users/name here folder in Macintosh HD then "Libraries" isnt there.

[hisefilo]

@Lindon LOL Macos hides dangerous folders to common users. Option click on Go menu to see Library folder

ChromaticPanFlute.vst is the file. You've found it

[Lindon]

@hisefilo really honestly - whats "option click" - I've tried cmd click that doesnt show me any thing more than normal click

[d.healey]

@Lindon option = alt

[orange]

@Lindon Go to the "Go" menu, then press and hold "alt" button, the hidden library folder appears.

[Lindon]

@orange so its not called "Libaries" at all as per Christoph's post - its called "Library"

This in the end this is moot as when I go to LibraryI can see Application Support but any way I get to Application Support there is no folder in it called Audio - so I still have no idea where my VST plug-ins are going.

[hisefilo]

@Lindon this is the place /Users/filo/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST

replace "filo" for your usename on macos

You can also directly go to this folder on the Go menu >> Go to folder

[Lindon]

@hisefilo yes so everyone keeps telling me, but ...

whilst /Users/filo/Library exists, there is no Audio folder in there.

[hisefilo]

@Lindon replace filo with your username

[hisefilo]

@Lindon is your vst plugin accesible within your daw? I mean can you load it correctly?