[sc-users] Re: [sc-users] Using Supercollider from C++

[nathan@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Thursday, January 03, 2019 21:31 CET, pete.soundtechnician@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
 >  Hi Supercollider users, I'm a long time Csounder just sinking my teeth
> into Supercollider. For my first question, I was wondering, is there a C++
> API for Supercollider so I can use it in an application similar to Csound
> has? I have looked through the docs and googled it before coming here, but
> the google hits returned are all about creating Supercollider plugins in
> C++.

hi pete,

there's something called libscsynth which can be compiled with the LIBSCSYNTH cmake flag set to ON. however this only embeds the server, not the client. also the scsynth C++ API is pretty low-level stuff, undocumented and not originally designed for public use. embedding supercollider in other applications as a library is unfortunately pretty tough to do especially with SC's two-process architecture.

the easiest way is to just have your application spawn sclang as a subprocess and talk to it over OSC or something similar.


nathan


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