diff --git a/Formula/vamp-plugin-sdk.rb b/Formula/vamp-plugin-sdk.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..af95ff2181
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Formula/vamp-plugin-sdk.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,191 @@
+class VampPluginSdk < Formula
+  desc "audio processing plugin system sdk"
+  homepage "http://www.vamp-plugins.org"
+  url "https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/attachments/download/1520/vamp-plugin-sdk-2.6.tar.gz"
+  sha256 "d0d3578137ac0c1e63f31561081a8d61da526a81152bc1dc9383b629bc07f85f"
+  head "https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/hg/vamp-plugin-sdk", :using => :hg
+
+  stable do
+    # activate osx specific items in Makefile.in
+    # https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/issues/1473
+    patch :p1, :DATA
+  end
+
+  depends_on "automake" => :build
+  depends_on "pkg-config" => :build
+  depends_on "libsndfile"
+  depends_on "libogg"
+  depends_on "flac"
+
+  def install
+    system "./configure", "--disable-debug", "--disable-dependency-tracking", "--prefix=#{prefix}"
+    system "make", "install"
+  end
+
+  test do
+    (testpath/"test.cpp").write <<-EOS.undent
+      #include "vamp-sdk/Plugin.h"
+      #include <vamp-sdk/PluginAdapter.h>
+
+      class MyPlugin : public Vamp::Plugin { };
+
+      const VampPluginDescriptor *
+      vampGetPluginDescriptor(unsigned int version, unsigned int index) { return NULL; }
+    EOS
+
+    system ENV.cxx, "test.cpp", "-I#{include}", "-Wl,-dylib", "-o", "test.dylib"
+    assert_match /Usage:/, shell_output("#{bin}/vamp-rdf-template-generator 2>&1", 2)
+
+    cp "#{lib}/vamp/vamp-example-plugins.so", testpath/"vamp-example-plugins.dylib"
+    ENV["VAMP_PATH"]=testpath
+    assert_match /amplitudefollower/, shell_output("#{bin}/vamp-simple-host -l")
+  end
+end
+
+__END__
+diff -r 1522e2f6d700 -r 3bfc44d26963 Makefile.in
+--- a/Makefile.in	Fri Sep 04 13:48:28 2015 +0100
++++ b/Makefile.in	Fri Dec 11 12:59:21 2015 +0000
+@@ -104,16 +104,32 @@
+ PLUGIN_LDFLAGS		= $(DYNAMIC_LDFLAGS) -Wl,--version-script=build/vamp-plugin.map
+
+
+-## For OS/X with g++:
+-#DYNAMIC_LDFLAGS		= -dynamiclib
+-#PLUGIN_LDFLAGS			= $(DYNAMIC_LDFLAGS)
+-#SDK_DYNAMIC_LDFLAGS		= $(DYNAMIC_LDFLAGS)
+-#HOSTSDK_DYNAMIC_LDFLAGS	= $(DYNAMIC_LDFLAGS)
++# Adapt install details when found to be running on OSX (thanks to David O)
++uname_S = $(shell uname -s)
++ifeq ($(uname_S),Darwin)
++
++	DYNAMIC_LDFLAGS		  = -dynamiclib
++	SDK_DYNAMIC_LDFLAGS	  = $(DYNAMIC_LDFLAGS)
++	HOSTSDK_DYNAMIC_LDFLAGS	  = $(DYNAMIC_LDFLAGS)
++	PLUGIN_LDFLAGS		  = $(DYNAMIC_LDFLAGS) -exported_symbols_list build/vamp-plugin.list
++
++	INSTALL_HOSTSDK_LIBNAME   = libvamp-hostsdk.3.6.0.dylib
++	INSTALL_HOSTSDK_LINK_ABI  = libvamp-hostsdk.3.dylib
++
++# The OS X linker doesn't allow you to request static linkage when
++# linking by library search path, if the same library name is found in
++# both static and dynamic versions. So if we install both static and
++# dynamic, the static library will never be used. That's OK for the
++# host SDK, but we do want plugins to get static linkage of the plugin
++# SDK. So install the dynamic version under a different name.
++	INSTALL_SDK_LIBNAME	  = libvamp-sdk-dynamic.2.6.0.dylib
++	INSTALL_SDK_LINK_ABI	  = libvamp-sdk-dynamic.2.dylib
++
++endif
+
+
+ ### End of user-serviceable parts
+
+-
+ API_HEADERS	= \
+		$(APIDIR)/vamp.h
+
+diff -r 1522e2f6d700 -r 3bfc44d26963 build/update-version.sh
+--- a/build/update-version.sh	Fri Sep 04 13:48:28 2015 +0100
++++ b/build/update-version.sh	Fri Dec 11 12:59:21 2015 +0000
+@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@
+ $p 's/(INSTALL_SDK_LINK_ABI\s*=\s*libvamp-sdk.so).*/$1.'$sdkmajor'/' \
+     Makefile.in
+
++$p 's/(INSTALL_SDK_LIBNAME\s*=\s*libvamp-sdk-dynamic).*.dylib/$1.'$sdkmajor'.'$sdkminor'.0.dylib/' \
++    Makefile.in
++
++$p 's/(INSTALL_SDK_LINK_ABI\s*=\s*libvamp-sdk-dynamic).*.dylib/$1.'$sdkmajor'.dylib/' \
++    Makefile.in
++
+ $p 's/(current)=.*/$1='$sdkmajor'/' \
+     build/libvamp-sdk.la.in
+
+@@ -54,6 +60,12 @@
+ $p 's/(INSTALL_HOSTSDK_LINK_ABI\s*=\s*libvamp-hostsdk.so).*/$1.'$hostmajor'/' \
+     Makefile.in
+
++$p 's/(INSTALL_HOSTSDK_LIBNAME\s*=\s*libvamp-hostsdk).*.dylib/$1.'$hostmajor'.'$hostminor'.0.dylib/' \
++    Makefile.in
++
++$p 's/(INSTALL_HOSTSDK_LINK_ABI\s*=\s*libvamp-hostsdk).*.dylib/$1.'$hostmajor'.dylib/' \
++    Makefile.in
++
+ $p 's/(current)=.*/$1='$hostmajor'/' \
+     build/libvamp-hostsdk.la.in
+
+diff -r 1522e2f6d700 -r 3bfc44d26963 configure
+--- a/configure	Fri Sep 04 13:48:28 2015 +0100
++++ b/configure	Fri Dec 11 12:59:21 2015 +0000
+@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+ #! /bin/sh
+ # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
+-# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69 for vamp-plugin-sdk 2.5.
++# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69 for vamp-plugin-sdk 2.6.
+ #
+ # Report bugs to <cannam@all-day-breakfast.com>.
+ #
+@@ -580,8 +580,8 @@
+ # Identity of this package.
+ PACKAGE_NAME='vamp-plugin-sdk'
+ PACKAGE_TARNAME='vamp-plugin-sdk'
+-PACKAGE_VERSION='2.5'
+-PACKAGE_STRING='vamp-plugin-sdk 2.5'
++PACKAGE_VERSION='2.6'
++PACKAGE_STRING='vamp-plugin-sdk 2.6'
+ PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='cannam@all-day-breakfast.com'
+ PACKAGE_URL=''
+
+@@ -1243,7 +1243,7 @@
+   # Omit some internal or obsolete options to make the list less imposing.
+   # This message is too long to be a string in the A/UX 3.1 sh.
+   cat <<_ACEOF
+-\`configure' configures vamp-plugin-sdk 2.5 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
++\`configure' configures vamp-plugin-sdk 2.6 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
+
+ Usage: $0 [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...
+
+@@ -1304,7 +1304,7 @@
+
+ if test -n "$ac_init_help"; then
+   case $ac_init_help in
+-     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of vamp-plugin-sdk 2.5:";;
++     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of vamp-plugin-sdk 2.6:";;
+    esac
+   cat <<\_ACEOF
+
+@@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@
+ test -n "$ac_init_help" && exit $ac_status
+ if $ac_init_version; then
+   cat <<\_ACEOF
+-vamp-plugin-sdk configure 2.5
++vamp-plugin-sdk configure 2.6
+ generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69
+
+ Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@@ -1651,7 +1651,7 @@
+ This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
+ running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
+
+-It was created by vamp-plugin-sdk $as_me 2.5, which was
++It was created by vamp-plugin-sdk $as_me 2.6, which was
+ generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69.  Invocation command line was
+
+   $ $0 $@
+@@ -4505,7 +4505,7 @@
+ # report actual input values of CONFIG_FILES etc. instead of their
+ # values after options handling.
+ ac_log="
+-This file was extended by vamp-plugin-sdk $as_me 2.5, which was
++This file was extended by vamp-plugin-sdk $as_me 2.6, which was
+ generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69.  Invocation command line was
+
+   CONFIG_FILES    = $CONFIG_FILES
+@@ -4558,7 +4558,7 @@
+ cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1
+ ac_cs_config="`$as_echo "$ac_configure_args" | sed 's/^ //; s/[\\""\`\$]/\\\\&/g'`"
+ ac_cs_version="\\
+-vamp-plugin-sdk config.status 2.5
++vamp-plugin-sdk config.status 2.6
+ configured by $0, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69,
+   with options \\"\$ac_cs_config\\"