Plugins not being found by Bitwig + `Error: Could not locate 'yabridge-host.exe.so'`

[jfaz1]

Thanks for giving yabridge a shot!

• [X] I read through both the troubleshooting and the known issues sections, and my issue wasn't listed there

Problem description

Running yabridgectl sync yields:

Finished setting up 1 plugins (0 new), skipped 0 non-plugin .dll files
Error: Could not locate 'yabridge-host.exe.so'

Files are created, but when using Bitwig, the folder for the VST is there without a plugin. The error in Bitwig when rescanning is: Could not find 'libyabridge-vst3.so

I have included the install dir in my PATH and running yabridgectl without full path works fine.

yabridgectl status outputs:

libyabridge-chainloader-vst2.so: '/home/jfaz/.local/share/yabridge/libyabridge-chainloader-vst2.so' (64-bit)
libyabridge-chainloader-vst3.so: '/home/jfaz/.local/share/yabridge/libyabridge-chainloader-vst3.so' (64-bit)

yabridge-host.exe: <not found>
yabridge-host-32.exe: <not found>

So it seems for some reason it can't find either two, even though ls ~/.local/share/yabridge has both there. Any clue what I can do?

Thank you for your time!

What did you expect to happen?

Plugin shows up in editor and can be loaded

What actually happened?

Nothing shows up other than plugin folder

Operating system

Xubuntu

How did you install yabridge?

Releases page, extracted to local/share/

yabridge version

4.0.1

yabridgectl version

4.0.1

Wine version

wine-7.11 (Staging)

Plugin

Any

Plugin type

both VST2 and VST3

Plugin architecture

64-bit

Host

Bitwig

Desktop environment or WM

No response

GPU model

No response

GPU drivers and kernel

No response

Debug log

No response

Anything else?

No response

[robbert-vdh]

Can you show me the output of running the following command in a terminal?

ls -Al "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/yabridge"

[jfaz1]

Can you show me the output of running the following command in a terminal?

ls -Al "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/yabridge"

Thanks for the reply! Here's the output:

ls -Al "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/yabridge"
total 9628
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jfaz jfaz   85061 jun 12 10:38 CHANGELOG.md
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jfaz jfaz   88912 jun 12 10:38 libyabridge-chainloader-vst2.so
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jfaz jfaz   88904 jun 12 10:38 libyabridge-chainloader-vst3.so
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jfaz jfaz  651704 jun 12 10:38 libyabridge-vst2.so
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jfaz jfaz 1758488 jun 12 10:38 libyabridge-vst3.so
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jfaz jfaz   51175 jun 12 10:38 README.md
drwx------ 2 jfaz jfaz    4096 jun 12 10:40 yabridge
-rwxrwxr-x 1 jfaz jfaz 2193776 jun 12 10:36 yabridgectl
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jfaz jfaz     708 jun 12 10:38 yabridge-host-32.exe
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jfaz jfaz 2488040 jun 12 10:38 yabridge-host-32.exe.so
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jfaz jfaz     705 jun 12 10:38 yabridge-host.exe
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jfaz jfaz 2421728 jun 12 10:38 yabridge-host.exe.so

[robbert-vdh]

That doesn't explain the Could not find 'libyabridge-vst3.so', but it seems like the executable bits were stripped from all of those files. I don't know how you extracted the archive, but something went wrong there. I'd completely rm -rf ~/.local/share/yabridge, and then extract the file again there. As a quick oneliner you could do curl -L https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge/releases/download/4.0.1/yabridge-4.0.1.tar.gz | tar -C ~/.local/share -xzvf - to get the files where they need to be.

[jfaz1]

Yup, that did it! First time something like this happens, pretty crazy. Thank you so much!