Vamp Host in XCode

I'm working on a Vamp host, and since getting Vamp to play nicely with XCode 4.6.2 (OS X 10.7.5) wasn't as straight forward as I'd have liked, here are the steps I followed.

Work In Progress!

1. Get the vamp source code and uncompress it
2. Go to build/Makefile.osx and remove -arch i386 at line 68
3. Compile the code by typing make -f build/Makefile.osx 
4. You should now have two libraries: libvamp-sdk.a & libvamp-hostsdk.a 
5. Create command line XCode project
6. Add the two libraries to the project
7. Also add the header files folders: vamp/, vamp-sdk/ and vamp-hostsdk/ 
8. Go to the target build settings and change the "C++ Standard Library" from "libc++" to "libstdc++"

UPDATE!

The problem compiling the example code for 32 bits (-arch i386) has to do with the libsndfile I have in my machine. It was compiled only for 64 bits (-arch x86_64), and that's why the -arch i386 flag failed. I've been using homebrew to install my dependencies, but althout libsndfile has a --universal option, libogg and libvorbis don't, and failed to copile for i386. My solution was to compile and install libogg and libvorbis manually for both architectures (see this VERY HELPFUL link) and then I finally installed libsndfile using homebrew (you'll need to use the --ignore-dependencies option to prevent homebre to try to install libogg and libvorbis (note that there might be other dependencies that you might need to install).

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