Empty window at startup

[oparisy]

Hi, I compiled clap-host under Windows following the Readme instructions.

What is its expected behavior? I tried launching it from command line, with and without the path to a clap plugin (Odin2) as the first argument, and in both case I get an empty Windows (with no available menu or action) and the following console error: Failed to load plugin ' "" ': "The shared library was not found."

I noticed issue #15 referencing a similar error message, but seemingly later (in my case I cannot even perform the "Select File => Load Native Plugin Preset" step by lack of a menu).

[oparisy]

Oh.

>clap-host.exe --help
Usage: clap-host.exe [options]
clap standalone host

Options:
  -?, -h, --help                     Displays help on commandline options.
  --help-all                         Displays help including Qt specific
                                     options.
  -v, --version                      Displays version information.
  -p, --plugin <path>                path to the plugin
  -i, --plugin-index <plugin-index>  index of the plugin to create

_pluginPath was not set in Application::parseCommandLine since I did not use the -p option, which led to trying to load a plugin with an empty path.

I guess some command line validation (displaying usage if a mandatory argument is missing) would be helpful.

[sagantech]

Adding a menu would be a better solution since many problems can also occur after one figures out how to load a plug-in. For me, the asio driver was continuously crashing and there is no way to change that. I finally installed ASIO 4 all and it started working.