// This file is part of VSTGUI. It is subject to the license terms 
// in the LICENSE file found in the top-level directory of this
// distribution and at http://github.com/steinbergmedia/vstgui/LICENSE

/**

@mainpage

Welcome to VSTGUI

- @ref intro @n
- @ref page_news_and_changes @n
- @ref page_uidescription_editor @n
- @ref page_license @n

@section intro Introduction

\par VSTGUI 
VSTGUI is a User Interface Toolkit mainly for Audio Plug-Ins (VST, AudioUnit, etc).
\par History
First developed inhouse of Steinberg Media Technologies (around 1998) for their first VST Plug-Ins. 
Later added as binary libraries to the official VST SDK. 
Since May 2003 VSTGUI is open source, was hosted at sourceforge and now at [GitHub](https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vstgui).

Currently VSTGUI compiles on
\par Microsoft Windows (with Visual Studio 2015/2017/2019 and Windows 7 Platform SDK)
- 7 (32 and 64 bit)
- 8 (32 and 64 bit)
- 10 (32 and 64 bit)
\par Apple macOS (with Xcode 7.3 or newer)
- 10.9 - 10.15 (32 and 64 bit)
\par Apple iOS
- 8.0 - 13.0 (32 and 64 bit)
\par Linux (with gcc >= 5.4 or clang >= 3.8)
- Ubuntu 2016.04 or newer

\sa [VSTGUI @ GitHub](https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vstgui)

@page page_setup Setup

\par To include VSTGUI in your projects you only have to add

- vstgui_win32.cpp (for Windows)
- vstgui_linux.cpp (for Linux)
- vstgui_mac.mm (for macOS)
- vstgui_ios.mm (for iOS)

to your IDE project and add a search path to the parent of the root folder of vstgui.

\par On macOS, you need to link to the following Frameworks:

- Accelerate
- Cocoa
- QuartzCore
- OpenGL (Optional)

\par On iOS, you need to link to the following Frameworks:

- UIKit
- CoreGraphics
- ImageIO
- CoreText
- GLKit
- Accelerate
- QuartzCore

\par On Linux you have to install xcb, freetype, fontconfig and cairo

Debian/Ubuntu based distribution:

- libx11-dev
- libx11-xcb-dev
- libxcb-util-dev
- libxcb-cursor-dev
- libxcb-keysyms1-dev
- libxcb-xkb-dev
- libxkbcommon-dev
- libxkbcommon-x11-dev
- libfontconfig1-dev
- libcairo2-dev
- libfreetype6-dev
- libpango1.0-dev

*/