Problem in short:
I’ve been going through the “Plugin Development Tutorial” and repeatedly come to the same roadblock. I make the example plugin with “helper.py” without a problem, but when I run “make” or “make install”, it comes up with same error that it can’t find “<rack.hpp>”.
I’m running on Windows 10 with Rack 1.1.6 and Rack-SDK 1.1.6
Here are all the steps I took, just in case someone can spot any mistakes I’m making.
- I downloaded the SDK and put it in a folder on my desktop.
- I downloaded MSYS2, started the 64-bit shell and ran
pacman -Syu
- I then restarted the shell and downloaded the rest of the packages with
pacman -Su
- I defined “RACK_DIR” in my .bashrc file
RACK_DIR=C:/Users/josh/Desktop/Rack-SDK
- I then made a second folder on the desktop called “Custom_Plugins”. I navigated bash to this new folder and ran
$RACK_DIR/helper.py createplugin MyPlugin
The script runs fine and it makes a new plugin folder.
- I then navigate bash to the new “MyPlugin” folder and run
make
But every time it comes up with this message:
g++ -std=c++11 -Wsuggest-override -fPIC -IC:/Users/josh/Desktop/Rack-SDK/include -IC:/Users/josh/Desktop/Rack-SDK/dep/include -MMD -MP -g -O3-march=nocona -funsafe-math-optimizations -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -DARCH_WIN -D_USE_MATH_DEFINES -c -o build/src/plugin.cpp.o src/plugin.cpp
In file included from src/plugin.cpp:1
src/plugin.hpp:2:10 fatal error: rack.hpp: No such file or directory
2 | #include <rack.hpp>
| ^~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make: *** [C:Users/josh/Desktop/Rack_SDK/compile.mk:69: build/src/plugin.cpp.0] Error 1
I kept thinking that my RACK_DIR path was wrong and that's why it couldn't find the rack header files, but RACK_DIR worked perfectly with the helper.py script. I've even moved the folders to different locations and update RACK_DIR to reflect the changes, but to no avail. I just don't understand how it can't find the header files.
If anyone can tell me if I missed something, I’d really appreciate it.
