How to make airwindows ConsoleX work in Ardour

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#1

Happy xmas
I just installed airwindows ConsoleX Buss and Channel vst3 plugins
I have copied the .vst3 forlder to both ~/.vst3 and /usr/lib/vst3/
When i run Ardour plugin manager the plugins both fail with Stale and Error status
Heres is the info for the Error status from plugin manager for the consoleX in ~/.vst3/
VST3 module-path ‘/home/mel/.vst3/ConsoleXBuss.vst3/Contents/x86_64-linux/ConsoleXBuss.so’
[Info]: Scanning: /home/mel/.vst3/ConsoleXBuss.vst3
[ERROR]: Could not load VST3 plugin ‘/home/mel/.vst3/ConsoleXBuss.vst3/Contents/x86_64-linux/ConsoleXBuss.so’: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.35’ not found (required by /home/mel/.vst3/ConsoleXBuss.vst3/Contents/x86_64-linux/ConsoleXBuss.so)
Cannot load VST3 module: ‘/home/mel/.vst3/ConsoleXBuss.vst3/Contents/x86_64-linux/ConsoleXBuss.so’
Scan Failed.

Heres the permissions

ls -la ConsoleXBuss.vst3/

total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 mel mel 4096 Dec 27 12:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 mel mel 4096 Dec 28 22:26 …
drwxr-xr-x 4 mel mel 4096 Dec 27 12:55 Contents
This is the file tree
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Heres the info for the stale plugin in /usr/lib/vst3/
Invalid VST3 Module Path: ‘’

I am running AVL21.3 based on debian 11, all up to date. The current glibc is version 2.31. Would trying to install the new 2.35 version break my system?
Many thanks
Mel

#2

In short: the pre-compiled plugin binaries you installed are not compatible with your system due to a different C standard library version used to compiled them.

#3

Ok, thanks for the information

#4

glibc is a basic fundamental system library which is used by pretty much every dynamically linked binary. On Debian based systems, you can check for the version

apt-cache show libc6

You have two options: compile the plugins yourself, or update your system (at least debian 12, Ubuntu 22.04 or similarly recent).

PS. a 3rd option is to pitch to Chris from airwindows to statically link the plugin or compile and link it with an older version of glibc.

#5

Thank you @x42
I am using AVL 23 (based on Debian12) more now because this library issue gets more all the time with new plugins and other apps.