What minimum Mac & Win OS are you supporting?

[dannytaurus]

All my existing Maize-based plugins are:

Mac: VST2/VST3/AU back to macOS 10.14
Win: VST2/VST3 back to Windows 8.1

Just trying to figure out what I should be targeting now with HISE plugins?

(I already know I can't do VST2, thank goodness!)

[David Healey]

@dannytaurus Whatever HISE's default is, I haven't checked for years

[dannytaurus]

@David-Healey I see your Rhapsody website says:

OS: Debian 9+, Windows 7+, MacOS 10.14+

Which sounds good to me.

According to Claude, for Windows:

No explicit minimum Windows version is set in the exported plugin templates. The effective minimum depends on the Visual Studio version and Windows SDK used:

• VS2019/2022 default to Windows SDK 10.0
• VS2017 defaults to Latest SDK
• VS2015 defaults to SDK 8.1

And from Google's horrendous AI results:

• VS2026 Supported Target Versions: The minimum supported target operating systems are Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016.
• The MSVC Build Tools version 14.50 (shipped with VS 2026) has officially dropped support for targeting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1

Does this mean if I use VS2022/26 to export Windows VST3, I can only support Win 10.0+? 🫠

[David Healey]

@dannytaurus said in What minimum Mac & Win OS are you supporting?:

Does this mean if I use VS2022/26 to export Windows VST3, I can only support Win 10.0+

I've been using VS22 since ?2022? for Rhapsody builds, so unlikely.

Regarding Debian version, you need to build on a sufficiently old version of Linux otherwise there will be library incompatibilities for users on older distros.