How are VST Plugins made?

Question

I would like to make (or learn how to make) VST plugins. Is there a special SDK for this? how does one yield a .vst instead of a .exe? Also, if one is looking to make Audio

Answer 1

I realize this is a very old post, but I have had success using the JUCE library, which builds projects for the major IDE's like Xcode, VS, and Codeblocks and automatically builds VST/3, AU/v3, RTAS, and AAX.

https://www.juce.com/