Often if we work on a project, we want to make the project entirely encapsulated in a folder, possibly using git submodules to keep track of the various dependencies. By default iPlug2's duplicate script does "in source" builds. To do an "out of source" build you can add a path as the fourth argument to duplicate.py.

The following commands show roughly what is necessary to set this up.

An example of such a setup can be found here: https://github.com/iPlug2/iPlug2OOS. You can use that as the basis for an OOS iPlug2 project

mkdir MyNewPlugin
cd MyNewPlugin
git init
git submodule add https://github.com/iPlug2/iPlug2.git
cd iPlug2/Examples/
./duplicate.py IPlugEffect MyNewPlugin MyManufacturerName ../..
cd ../..
git add MyNewPlugin
#could also add VST3_SDK etc submodules, but need to modify plug-in VisualStudio and Xcode projects
#git submodule add https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3sdk.git VST3_SDK
#git submodule update --recursive
git commit -a -m "initial commit"