Has anyone had success with this? I’m running a Pi 4B with an image that I upgraded from the bullseye edition of Raspbian, to bookworm (I plan to eventually move to pi 5) . It boots up fine and all is well with puredata. But I want to get vstplugins~ working for a new project. I successfully built the external, and puredata recognizes it, but it won’t load any Linux vsts (.so)….. Just won’t even try. So I figured maybe it only works with windows vst’s. So installed pi-apps and used that to install wine. got wine working with box86, and got wine to load the windows version of Audacity successfully. Then tried again with vstplugin~, this time loading a windows DLL vst. Now it says it can’t bridge the architecture… terminal says no host exists that can bridge to i386. Now I’m pretty much stuck

I’m no Linux guru and it’s a miracle I even got this far so any help anyone can provide would be very appreciated. Thanks!

but it won’t load any Linux vsts (.so)

Have these plugins been compiled for the Raspberry Pi (ARM)? I personally know people who successfully use [vstplugin~] on the RPi, so it should be possible, but the plugins must have the right architecture.

Now it says it can’t bridge the architecture… terminal says no host exists that can bridge to i386

Did you build the wine host for [vstplugin~]? (See the README for instructions.) If the built-in wine host doesn't work, you can try external wine bridges like yabridge.

Most VST's don't provide source code I can use to compile an ARM version.. Are you saying I can only use ones that do?

I tried redoing it with the wine host after i got wine installed, but I'm worried I may have screwed up the order of operations somehow. I'm not entirely sure. I may need to start over from a fresh OS image and do things in a certain order for it to work.

This time I did the order I said.... installed PD, Upgraded to bookworm, reinstalled PD for 64 bit... built vstplugins, failed to get it to work... installed wine, tried dll, failed... tried rebuilding vstplugins after wine install, with wine host option ON.... tried again with dll, failed.

I'm thinking it needs to be more like....install pd, install wine, then build vstplugins with the correct options the first time.

But.... if it can only use vst's I compile myself, I don't much see the point.

I also wondered about that utility that flashes windows to an SD card that pi can boot from. Supposedly a way to run windows on a Pi. Then I would think it would have no trouble with anything windows related... But that still doesn't change my ARM processor.... so could even that not be able to run a regular old windows dll vst?

Oh and I should also say.. I did build a Linux vst from source and try that. Those were the .so files I tried. No luck