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.

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

• Accelerate
• Cocoa
• QuartzCore
• OpenGL (Optional)

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

• UIKit
• CoreGraphics
• ImageIO
• CoreText
• GLKit
• Accelerate
• QuartzCore

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