Noob Problems - Error Compiling Plugins
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@stusmith welcome to the community. This will happen a lot, but eventually you will get the hang of it and there's a lot of people here to help.
First make sure you are using the latest version of HISE (build your own) and start re-building your plugin step by step from an empty project, trying to compile all the way.
Most of the time during the process something went wrong and it's hard to tell what. Often even cleaning the build directories doesn't help and the error is simply gone when
making the exact same thing from scratch again in an empty project. Start with something simple and work your way up until you feel comfortable. HISE has a steep learning curve and it's highly rewarding once you get the hang of it. -
@Morphoice Thanks for the welcome!
I did have a go at this, creating new projects with nothing in them or just a simple generator. I also tried no spaces in the project name, just in case.
Every time there's the same kind of error message, though it seems to appear in a different place.
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I've been casually clicking OK on this every time... maybe it's related.
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@stusmith which version of HISE are you using?
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@stusmith try building your own version from the latest develop branch, there've been a lot of problems with later os versions fixed
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@Morphoice This is where my noobness will shine through... I have no idea how to use github.
How do I find the latest dev branch?
Meanwhile, I also bothered ChatGPT for some advice and I think I've got a step further. I didn't have IPP installed and there's an option to not use it. I've unchecked that in a test project and it's actually compiled!
Might not be a great fix but seemed to work for now. Gonna try a more complex project.
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Ooooh! I compiled a working plugin!
I feel this IPP thing may return to bite me in the ass so I'll still look for a solution to that but for now I'm super happy I got something that works in my DAW. 🥳
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To conclude. I hadn't installed the Intel IPP library because, a) it wasn't specified as mandatory, and b) the link in the install guide is an exe and I'm on mac.
Because the "Use IPP" box was checked in the settings it was failing at this stage when compiling. Unchecking it allowed the compiling process to complete.
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S stusmith has marked this topic as solved
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@stusmith Yeah you don't need IPP on MacOS (or Windows, it's optional). Here's a video about building HISE on Mac.
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@d-healey Forgot to come back and thank you for the reply!
Since fixing the IPP thing I've not had any problems spitting out working plugins on the Macbook. Great fun. I've worked through the first synth tutorial and that raised some questions that I may post later but I got the right results.
I definitely have some other things to learn by nyself before I start bothering the forums again but I'm pretty sure I'll be back soon.
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