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-/** \mainpage Vamp Plugin SDK
-
-\section about About Vamp
-
-Vamp is an API for C and C++ plugins that process sampled audio data
-to produce descriptive output (measurements or semantic observations).
-Find more information at http://www.vamp-plugins.org/ .
-
-Although the official API for Vamp plugins is defined in C for maximum
-binary compatibility, we strongly recommend using the provided C++
-classes in the SDK to implement your own plugins and hosts.
-
-\section plugins For Plugins
-
-Plugins should subclass Vamp::Plugin, and then use a
-Vamp::PluginAdapter to expose the correct C API for the plugin.  Read
-the documentation for Vamp::PluginBase and Vamp::Plugin before
-starting.
-
-Plugins should be compiled and linked into dynamic libraries using the
-usual convention for your platform, and should link (preferably
-statically) with -lvamp-sdk.  Any number of plugins can reside in a
-single dynamic library.  See plugins.cpp in the example plugins
-directory for the sort of code that will need to accompany your plugin
-class or classes, to make it possible for a host to look up your
-plugins properly.
-
-The following example plugins are provided:
-
- - ZeroCrossing calculates the positions and density of zero-crossing
- points in an audio waveform.
-
- - SpectralCentroid calculates the centre of gravity of the frequency
- domain representation of each block of audio.
-
- - AmplitudeFollower is an implementation of SuperCollider's
- amplitude-follower algorithm as a simple Vamp plugin.
-
- - PercussionOnsetDetector estimates the locations of percussive
- onsets using a simple method described in "Drum Source Separation
- using Percussive Feature Detection and Spectral Modulation" by Dan
- Barry, Derry Fitzgerald, Eugene Coyle and Bob Lawlor, ISSC 2005.
-
-\section hosts For Hosts
-
-Hosts will normally use a Vamp::PluginHostAdapter to convert each
-plugin's exposed C API back into a useful Vamp::Plugin C++ object.
-
-Starting with version 1.1 of the Vamp SDK, there are several classes
-in the Vamp::HostExt namespace that aim to make the host's life as
-easy as possible:
-
- - Vamp::HostExt::PluginLoader provides a very simple interface for a
- host to discover, load, and find out category information about the
- available plugins.  Most "casual" Vamp hosts will probably want to
- use this class.
-
- - Vamp::HostExt::PluginInputDomainAdapter provides a simple means for
- hosts to handle plugins that expect frequency-domain input, without
- having to convert the input themselves.
-
- - Vamp::HostExt::PluginChannelAdapter provides a simple means for
- hosts to use plugins that do not necessarily support the same number
- of audio channels as they have available, without having to apply a
- channel management / mixdown policy themselves.
-
-The PluginLoader class can also use the input domain and channel
-adapters automatically to make the entire conversion process
-transparent to the host if required.
-
-Hosts should link with -lvamp-hostsdk.
-
-(The following notes in this section are mostly relevant for
-developers that are not using the HostExt classes, or that wish to
-know more about the policy they implement.)
-
-The Vamp API does not officially specify how to load plugin libraries
-or where to find them.  However, the SDK does include a function
-(Vamp::PluginHostAdapter::getPluginPath()) that returns a recommended
-directory search path that hosts may use for plugin libraries.
-
-Our suggestion for a host is to search each directory in this path for
-.DLL (on Windows), .so (on Linux, Solaris, BSD etc) or .dylib (on
-OS/X) files, then to load each one and perform a dynamic name lookup
-on the vampGetPluginDescriptor function to enumerate the plugins in
-the library.  The example host has some code that may help, but this
-operation will necessarily be system-dependent.
-
-Vamp also has an informal convention for sorting plugins into
-functional categories.  In addition to the library file itself, a
-plugin library may install a category file with the same name as the
-library but .cat extension.  The existence and format of this file are
-not specified by the Vamp API, but by convention the file may contain
-lines of the format
-
-\code
-vamp:pluginlibrary:pluginname::General Category > Specific Category
-\endcode
-
-which a host may read and use to assign plugins a location within a
-category tree for display to the user.  The expectation is that
-advanced users may also choose to set up their own preferred category
-trees, which is why this information is not queried as part of the
-Vamp API itself.
-
-There is an example host in the "host" directory from which code may
-be drawn.
-
-\section license License
-
-This plugin SDK is freely redistributable under a "new-style BSD"
-licence.  See the file COPYING for more details.  In short, you may
-modify and redistribute the SDK and example plugins within any
-commercial or non-commercial, proprietary or open-source plugin or
-application under almost any conditions, with no obligation to provide
-source code, provided you retain the original copyright note.
-
-
-*/
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-prefix=%PREFIX%
-exec_prefix=${prefix}
-libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
-includedir=${prefix}/include
-
-Name: vamp-hostsdk
-Version: 1.1.0
-Description: Development library for Vamp audio analysis plugin hosts
-Libs: -L${libdir} -lvamp-hostsdk
-Cflags: -I${includedir} 
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-prefix=%PREFIX%
-exec_prefix=${prefix}
-libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
-includedir=${prefix}/include
-
-Name: vamp-sdk
-Version: 1.1.0
-Description: Development library for Vamp audio analysis plugins
-Libs: -L${libdir} -lvamp-sdk
-Cflags: -I${includedir}