Does anyone offer compilation service for plugins on PC/MAC

[Morphoice]

@David-Healey ok thanks I'll try removing everything from the pc. probably reinstalling visual studio too

[Morphoice]

@David-Healey im still at it. taking forever to get visual studio to work on that old thing... I'll report back as soon as I succeed in compiling HISE on the PC

[David Healey]

@Morphoice Just to confirm, you're installing Visual Studio 2026 Community Edition? There's a bunch of components that are enabled by default in the installer that you don't need for compiling HISE, if you haven't disabled them it could save you some time (although probably too late now)

[Christoph Hart]

@Morphoice what's the problem you're running into? It's hard to guess what went wrong, but I understand your frustration. I've moved the VS version that HISE uses to VS2026 because you cannot download VS2022 anymore so new users were locked out of compiling HISE, that might probably be the cause.

I'm currently working on streamlining that process using a separate app that handles all that installation routine (a bit like the setup.hise.dev stuff, but integrated into one app instead of copy / pasting stuff between the browser and terminal and running a custom script). It can do a lot more than just that (it's basically a remote controller for HISE that an AI agent can use), but handling the installation is just one of its benefits.

I tested it on a fresh VM and it does a single click install of VS, IPP, Faust, compiles HISE and a demo project. let it run for about 20 minutes, then you have a setup that works. If you have a little patience left, it might be good if you test it on your machine - you get a working setup, I get a feedback if it works on a user system.

[Morphoice]

@Christoph-Hart VS 2022 probably was the problem. after a complete cleanup and reinstall of the pc hise finally compiled. now trying to get the plugin to run next. im exhausted lol

[Morphoice]

@Christoph-Hart oh and yes sure i'd be happy to give your new setup app a try. that would be a dream come true

[Christoph Hart]

@Morphoice alright, if you're brave here we go:

https://github.com/christophhart/hise-cli/releases/tag/v0.6.4

1. install that,
2. open a terminal with admin privileges (required to install the MS build Tools & Faust)
3. type in hise-cli - should launch a funky TUI app. If you dislike TUIs, type in hise-cli --web and it will spawn a browser with a web UI - same backend.
4. type in /setup in the input box
5. Wizard appears, select Faust, IPP, press submit
6. sit back in awe, it installs everything, clones HISE, compiles it & a test plugin.

If the installation procedure is finished you can use the hise-cli tool for different things - /update will fetch the latest CI-passing development commit and recompile HISE, /builder let's you or an LLM remotely build up a module tree (same with /ui for UI components, /dsp for scriptnode).

Note that this will not install the full VisualStudio, but a subset containing only the MS compiler - this makes it fully automatable and you don't have to pick the correct installation payload in the VS installer anymore. If you've already installed VS, then this step is skipped.

on a fresh VM it ran through (last week, hope there's no regression...).

[Morphoice]

@Christoph-Hart I'll give this a go tomorrow, I had to give up as my eyes are so weak it is physically impossible for me to see or identify any font at the small laptop screen anymore today. i have severe macula degeneration

I had hise compile, the plugin did load, however all the hardcoded synthesizer nodes were messed up, i had the dlls still compiled from previous versions somewhere but they wouldnt connect to the gui, and recompiling fails due to some paths not being set correctly

fingers crossed for tomorrow, hopefully i will be able to see better. there are better and worse days, today was one of the worst

[Christoph Hart]

i had the dlls still compiled from previous versions somewhere but they wouldnt connect to the gui

Yes that will definitely not work - consider the dlls a pure throwaway temporary artifact - as soon as you update HISE you need to export the DLL again.

Sorry to hear about the macula degeneration, I also had an accident last year that left me with a black spot on the left eye for two weeks, was super scary...

[dannytaurus]

@Christoph-Hart Just tried hise-cli on Win 11 in Parallels on an M4 Mac and it crashes. I take it there's no ARM support?

PS C:\Users\dan> hise-cli
(hangs for about 30 seconds then..)
PS C:\Users\dan> echo $LASTEXITCODE
-1073741819

[Christoph Hart]

@dannytaurus ah, no, but I'll check whether I can cross-compile arm binaries in the CI pipeline.

[Morphoice]

@Christoph-Hart i can't seem to get anything to run as windows defender blocks about everything im trying to do and I cant figure out how to turn it off. whatever claude suggests doesnt work LOL

[ustk]

@Morphoice GPT's answer: "the ultimate weapon against Defender is compliance. Not very rebellious, but highly compatible."
Arfff... those robots will never have the balls...

[Morphoice]

@ustk I had claude code me a script to turn it off, it still needed to be executed with admin rights but now I'm getting somewhere. hise compiled fine with faust, however doesnt compile plugins as still visual studio 2022 shit is set... but i think i can fix that by switching it in settings and work my way through

[David Healey]

@Morphoice https://www.thewindowsclub.com/uninstall-windows-defender