Plugin development on Mac M1

[LarsBjerregaard]

Good to hear it!

@johnschneider

This seems to be caused by using gcc rather than clang, but I thought gcc was the standard compiler for Rack. Any thoughts?

From one of the wizzards:

Rack compiler question

You can’t compile Rack with MSVC - it uses some non-standard gcc extensions, including variable length arrays. You’d also need to compile every other piece of the Rack process the same way - all the dependencies, and all the plugins. It would be a huge undertaking. But if you’re really only talking about data structures, meaning a struct containing fundamental data types, you should be OK. At most you might need to use pragmas to control the layout, eg. padding and alignment. Can you tell w…

In the Mac environment, “gcc” is just a wrapper for clang, so you should be OK.

You should follow the guide at Building - VCV Rack Manual

Mac

Install Homebrew, and install build dependencies: brew install git wget cmake autoconf automake libtool jq python