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Tim edited this page Apr 3, 2017 · 32 revisions

Quickstart (TL;DR)

On all systems, pick a dev root and run:

git clone http://www-dev.cockos.com/wdl/WDL.git
git clone https://github.com/reaper-oss/sws.git

On Windows: set REAPER_DIR and/or REAPER64_DIR environment variables to point to your REAPER installation paths.

Windows

The project files are in Visual Studio 2013 format.

The build environment is set up to be portable. All you need to do is set a Windows environment variable REAPER_DIR to the folder where your REAPER 32-bit executable is located. Also set REAPER64_DIR to REAPER x64 if you plan to build/debug in x64.

Make sure to generate the API header file reaper_plugin_functions.h from REAPER too (run the action "[developer] Write C++ API functions header").
When generating header, REAPER should detect REAPER_DIR (or REAPER64_DIR) and write the header to that location. Note that the SWS project expects to find the generated header in the path pointed to by REAPER_DIR (or REAPER64_DIR).

OSX

The project is built using XCode v3.x.6. Pretty standard XCode project. Use Debug mode for debug, release for universal binary build. There's a post-build script setup to copy the dylib from the sws_osx directory to the /Library/Application Support/REAPER/UserPlugins directory by default. There's a command line script to build and create installers in Install/osx_build.command.

Linux

Now in "beta" (next branch), SWS extension compiles under Linux. You'll need lib-gtk3.0-dev and php.

git clone http://www-dev.cockos.com/wdl/WDL.git
git clone https://github.com/reaper-oss/sws.git
cd sws
make
ln -s `pwd`/reaper_sws64.so .../REAPER/Plugins

WDL

WDL from Cockos http://www.cockos.com/wdl/ needs to be installed on your system.

File structure notes

  • /<development root>/ - A directory of your choosing

  • /<development root>/WDL/ - NEEDED See WDL section above

  • /<development root>/sws/ - Put the content of the source tree here. You can use a different name if you do not plan to build/release the extension ("sws" is required to generate LangPack files).

  • /<development root>/sws/reaper/ - REAPER SDK interface / files. You do not need anything from the SDK since the few files you need are included in the SWS source tree with permission.

  • /<development root>/sws/reaper/reaper_plugin.h - This file is copyright Cockos and is only included here for convenience. The original location of this file is http://www.reaper.fm/sdk/plugin/plugin.php. I'll keep this file up to date in the source tree.

  • /<development root>/sws/reaper/sws_rpf_wrapper.h - This file wraps the API functions header (reaper_plugin_functions.h).

  • /<development root>/sws/SnM/ - Code written by Jeffos, actions with S&M in the title.

  • /<development root>/sws/Fingers/ - Code contributed by Fingers, actions with FNG in the title.

  • /<development root>/sws/Breeder/ - Code contributed by Breeder, actions with BR in the title.

  • etc

  • /<development root>/sws/AutoRender/ - Autorending utility, ported from AHK by Shane.

  • /<development root>/sws/Misc/ - General actions written by Tim.

  • /<development root>/sws/ + Color, Console, Freeze, MarkerActions, MarkerList, Snapshots, TrackList - These contain code for the functionality with the same name, written by Tim.

  • /<development root>/sws/Utility/ - General utility classes

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