First to get started with working with the VST SDK, you need to download it. Next you will need to build it with CMake, this can be done by opening the SDK folder in Cmake-gui.
VST SDK Download: https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3sdk
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/
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