A Cargo plugin for developing REAPER extension and VST plugins with Rust.
cargo-reaper is a convenience wrapper around Cargo that adds a post-build hook to streamline REAPER extension development. It automatically renames the compiled plugin to include the required reaper_ prefix and symlinks it to REAPER’s UserPlugins directory.
By default, Cargo prefixes dynamic libraries with lib, which REAPER does not recognize. Manually renaming the plugin and keeping the UserPlugins directory up-to-date can be tedious -- cargo-reaper takes care of all that for you, across all supported platforms.
cargo-reaper is made to be a companion for reaper-rs which is a rust library for writing REAPER plugins that includes an extension plugin bootstrap proc macro.
To initialize, build and run your first cargo-reaper extension plugin:
cargo reaper new reaper_hello_world_extension
cargo reaper runWarning
Currently the reaper-rs library supports using the vst crate which is deprecated. In an effort to maintain support for reaper-rs,
cargo-reaper can initialize VST plugins, but it does not add any conveniences like it does for extension development.
To initialize and build a VST plugin:
cargo reaper new --template vst reaper_vst_plugin
cargo buildFor more information on how to use cargo-reaper read the docs, or start a discussion.
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