This script pulls down the VCV Rack community repo, finds source urls, pulls down source repos, and builds plugins.

community-builds-from-source.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

#################################################################################################################################
# community-builds-from-source.sh
#     by Jeremy Wentworth
#
# Modified by Kent Williams chaircrusher@gmail.com
# Modified by Jon Williams jon@jonwillia.ms
#
# This script pulls down the VCV Rack community repo, finds source urls, pulls down source repos, and builds plugins.
#
# This script requires:
#     Bash (>=4)
#     git - https://git-scm.com/
#     VCV Rack dev env - https://github.com/VCVRack/Rack#setting-up-your-development-environment
#
# Copy this script into:
#    Rack/plugins
#
# Run this in Rack/plugins:
#    . community-builds-from-source.sh
#
#################################################################################################################################
if [ $BASH_VERSINFO -lt '4' ]; then
    echo "You need a newer version of Bash. You're using $BASH_VERSION"
    exit 1
fi

# check for the community repo locally
if [ -d "community" ]; then
pushd community
# discard any changes
git reset HEAD --hard

# update the community repo if it exists
git pull
popd
else
# community repo does not exist so pull it down
git clone https://github.com/VCVRack/community
fi

buildfails=""

# the strategy is that you want the 'latest and greatest' version of
# each plugin -- the master branch.  But some plugins won't compile
# unless you check out a specific git label. So the versionMap lets
# you look up that version below when checking out source.
declare -A versionMap
versionMap=([AudibleInstruments]=v0.5.0 [Autodafe]=skip [Befaco]=v0.5.0
[Fundamental]=v0.5.1 [RJModules]=0.5.0
[trowasoft-VCV]=v0.5.5)

# helper function to see if a particular key is in an associative array
exists(){
if [ "$2" != in ]; then
echo "Incorrect usage."
echo "Correct usage: exists {key} in {array}"
return
fi
eval '[ ${'$3'[$1]+muahaha} ]'
}

# loop through the json in the community repo
for gitPlugin in $(cat community/plugins/*.json | grep \"source\" | awk -F'"' '{print $4}')
do

# get the folder name and see if we already haave it locally
pluginDirName=$(echo $gitPlugin | awk -F'/' '{print $5}')
if [ -d "$pluginDirName" ]; then
echo "$pluginDirName exists"
else
echo "$pluginDirName does not exists yet"
userNameUrlPart=$(echo $gitPlugin | awk -F'/' '{print $4}')
git clone $gitPlugin #NOTE: not all plugins are on github, sonus is on gitlab
fi

# if there's a problem with checkout everything goes to hell
if [ ! -d ${pluginDirName} ] ; then
continue;
fi

# change to the repo dir
pushd $pluginDirName

# Some devs don't have a .gitignore so you can't pull until you do something with the changed files.
git reset HEAD --hard #discards any changes - we could do `git stash` here instead

# pull down the latest code
git fetch
if exists ${pluginDirName} in versionMap
then
if [ ${versionMap[${pluginDirName}]} == "skip" ]
then
popd
continue;
else
git checkout ${versionMap[${pluginDirName}]}
fi
else
git checkout master
fi
# try to update submodules if there are any
git submodule update --init --recursive

# clean old builds (might not be needed but can prevent issues)
make clean

make -j$(nproc||gnproc) dep

# finally, build the plugin
if make -j$(nproc||gnproc)
then
true; # say nothing
else
buildfails="${buildfails} ${pluginDirName}"
fi

# go back to the last dir
popd

done

echo "BUILD FAILURES: ${buildfails}"