Documentation in the Bridge section of https://vcvrack.com/manual/Core.html.
Clone this repository in the root directory of the Rack repository. Or, clone this repository anywhere and set the RACK_DIR environment variable.
For the VST plugin, obtain an old copy of VST2_SDK/ which contains the pluginterfaces/ directory, and place it in the vst/ directory.
For the AU plugin, obtain AudioUnitExamplesAudioUnitEffectGeneratorInstrumentMIDIProcessorandOffline/ from Apple's Core Audio SDK, and place it in the au/ directory.
Run make dist in each desired directory. The plugins are placed in dist/.
The VST plugin has been successfully tested on Ubuntu 16.04 with several DAWs: Ardour (5.12), Bitwig Studio (2.3), Qtractor (0.8.4). However it might behave poorly if the host does not use an audio buffer with a fixed size (i.e. Renoise 3.1.0, Radium, 5.4.9). In Carla (2.0-beta6), "Fixed-size buffer" has to be enabled in the plugin's options.
Source code licensed under BSD-3-Clause by Andrew Belt