Question

That’s the first time I use stack overflow ’cause I got a problem develop VST Plugins with GUI on MacOSX 10.8.
I’m new to mac development and I’m not shure why I get the following errors due compiling and linking my product using VSTGUI 4.0.1.

/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/aeffguieditor.cpp:115:34: 'createDrawContext' is deprecated
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/aeffguieditor.cpp:182:10: 'TickCount' is deprecated: first deprecated in Mac OS X 10.8
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/aeffguieditor.cpp:237:27: Conversion from string literal to 'char *' is deprecated
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/cview.cpp
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/cview.cpp:661:22: No matching function for call to 'make_pair'
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/platform/mac/macfileselector.mm
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/platform/mac/macfileselector.mm:239:5: 'beginSheetForDirectory:file:types:modalForWindow:modalDelegate:didEndSelector:contextInfo:' is deprecated
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/platform/mac/macfileselector.mm:244:21: 'runModalForDirectory:file:types:' is deprecated
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/platform/mac/macfileselector.mm:255:5: 'beginSheetForDirectory:file:modalForWindow:modalDelegate:didEndSelector:contextInfo:' is deprecated
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/platform/mac/macfileselector.mm:260:21: 'runModalForDirectory:file:' is deprecated
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/platform/mac/carbon/hiviewframe.cpp
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/platform/mac/carbon/hiviewframe.cpp:493:4: Use of undeclared identifier 'GetPortBounds'
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/platform/mac/carbon/hiviewframe.cpp:524:2: Use of undeclared identifier 'GetPortBounds'
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/platform/mac/carbon/hiviewframe.cpp:539:24: Use of undeclared identifier 'QDSwapPort'
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/platform/mac/carbon/hiviewframe.cpp:542:3: Use of undeclared identifier 'QDSwapPort'
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/platform/mac/carbon/hiviewframe.cpp:634:124: Non-constant-expression cannot be narrowed from type 'CCoord' (aka 'double') to 'CGFloat' (aka 'float') in initializer list
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/platform/mac/carbon/hiviewframe.cpp:747:13: Enumeration value 'kError' not handled in switch
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/platform/mac/carbon/hiviewframe.cpp:808:24: Use of undeclared identifier 'NewRgn'
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/platform/mac/carbon/hiviewframe.cpp:822:5: Use of undeclared identifier 'DisposeRgn'
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/platform/mac/carbon/hiviewframe.cpp:1016:17: Use of undeclared identifier 'kQDRegionToRectsMsgParse'
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/platform/mac/carbon/hiviewframe.cpp:1117:37: Use of undeclared identifier 'kQDParseRegionFromTopLeft'
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/platform/mac/carbon/hiviewoptionmenu.cpp
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/platform/mac/carbon/hiviewoptionmenu.cpp:107:17: 'UniqueID' is deprecated: first deprecated in Mac OS X 10.8
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/platform/mac/carbon/hiviewtextedit.cpp
/Users/christianschragen/Downloads/samples/vst2.x/mac/lib/platform/mac/carbon/hiviewtextedit.cpp:111:3: Use of undeclared identifier 'GetFNum'

Any ideas what’s wrong?

Thanks

Chris

Answer 1

I have a strong feeling that VSTGUI does not support 10.8 yet. You should set the target SDK in your Xcode build settings to 10.7 (or maybe 10.6), which probably involves downloading a huge DMG from Apple via Xcode.

Also it probably wouldn’t hurt to contact the VSTGUI developers to seek support from them.