media-sound/qtractor: enable VST2 support #26717
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A lot of MIDI instruments now come in the form of Linux VST plugins, so not having VST support enabled seriously limits Qtractor's use cases (since the primary use of Qtractor is as a MIDI sequencer) and forces users to manually build from source. VST2 support does not actually require any external deps. When the VST2 SDK is not found, it just uses the VST API declared in vestige.h which comes with qtractor. So just unconditionally enable it, which is what upstream does when cmake can't find the SDK. VST3 support does require the VST3 SDK, which is not in portage, so keep that disabled. Fortunately, VST3 is not that popular, at least for Linux VST plugins. Signed-off-by: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
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A lot of MIDI instruments now come in the form of Linux VST plugins, so
not having VST support enabled seriously limits Qtractor's use cases
(since the primary use of Qtractor is as a MIDI sequencer) and forces
users to manually build from source.
VST2 support does not actually require any external deps. When the VST2
SDK is not found, it just uses the VST API declared in vestige.h which
comes with qtractor. So just unconditionally enable it, which is what
upstream does when cmake can't find the SDK.
VST3 support does require the VST3 SDK, which is not in portage, so keep
that disabled. Fortunately, VST3 is not that popular, at least for Linux
VST plugins.
Signed-off-by: Nikos Chantziaras realnc@gmail.com