Does anyone offer compilation service for plugins on PC/MAC

[Morphoice]

ok hands down I'm at this for over a week now, I've made a great plugin which works fine on mac, but trying to get hise to run on a PC and compiling the plugin there is a nightmare and does not work, not even after a week of trial and error and not even with the help of claude code. and i had a hise version (exact same as on the mac) running half a year ago and changed absolutely nothing, now it doesnt. tried again on both systems to compile the latest, now nothing runs and Im sorry to say im close to a nervous breakdown, no I'm not joking. I am a very sick man and I have severe health issues and I cannot deal with this.

So the question is simple before I finally SNAP BIGTIME
Can anyone offer me to compile the plugin for mac and pc for me? I'll happily give them the github. thank you.

or even simpler, is it at all possible form anyone to get a working CURRENT version of HISE WITH FAUST SUPPORT COMPILED for WINDOWS and MAC? i don't understand why since 2024 (!!!!!) there is not even a current downloadable release.

[David Healey]

@Morphoice Have you successfully built HISE on Windows? Having a pre-built version isn't going to help you compile your own projects.

[Morphoice]

@David-Healey i had in the past and all my plugins worked there, i have changed absolutely nothing but now they dont. i am trying to recompile a current version with faust there for over a week now. but no matter what i do it either fails to compile with messages ic ant read due to severe blindness on one eye - on other attempts i get hise to load the project but it simply has no hardcoded notes, not even available to create. this is an old laptop which i only ever use to compile stuff on hise and havent touched since the last time.

i have just compiled a current version from totays pull on mac, but on pc it just wont

[David Healey]

Remove all versions of HISE and the HISE source from your Windows system. Then go here: https://setup.hise.dev/

If that doesn't work it means there is a bug in the most recent dev commits. If that happens come back and I'll give you another commit to use.

[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...