Robbert van der Helmyabridgectl
A small, optional utility to set up yabridge for several directories at once and to keep them updated.
Usage
All of the information below can also be found by running yabridgectl --help.
Yabridge path
Yabrdgectl will need to know where it can find libyabridge.so. By default it
will look for it in both ~/.local/share/yabridge (the recommended installation
directory when using the prebuilt binaries) and in /usr/lib (used when using
the AUR packages). You can use the command below to override this behaviour and
to use a custom installation directory instead.
yabridgectl set --path=<path/to/directory/containing/yabridge>
Installation modes
By default, yabridgectl will use the copy-based installation method for yabridge since this installation method works everywhere. If you are using a DAW that supports individually sandboxed plugins, then you can choose between using copies and symlinks using the command below.
yabridgectl set --mode=<copy|symlink>
Managing directories
Yabridgectl manage Windows VST plugin install locations for you. To add, remove and list directories, or to list the plugins currently installed inside one of those directories, you can use the command below.
# Add a directory to watch
# For instance, use the below command for the most common VST2 plugin directory
# yabridgectl add "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steinberg/VstPlugins"
yabridgectl add <path/to/plugins>
# No longer watch a directory, this will ask you if you want to remove any leftover yabridge files
yabridgectl rm <path/to/plugins>
# List the currently watched directories
yabridgectl ls
# Show the current settings and the installation status for all plugins in the watched directories
yabridgectl status
Installing and updating
Finally you can set up or update yabridge for all of your plugins at once using
the command below. By default yabridgectl will warn you if it finds .so files
without an accompanying .dll file, but it will only delete those when using
the --prune option.
# Set up copies or symlinks of yabridge for all plugins under the watched directories
yabridgectl sync
# Set up yabridge, and also remove any '.so' still leftover after removing a plugin
yabridgectl sync --purge
Building
After installing Rust, simply run the below to compile and run:
cargo run --release