[Live-devel] shared library

[Matt Schuckmann]

There is one really good reason to support shared libraries and that is 
to make it easier to full fill the obligations of the LGPL.
The way it is now if you have a closed source application using this 
library and someone else wants to build thier own version of liveMedia 
to use with your application the developer must provide all the object 
files for their closed source code so that the new static version of 
livemedia can be linked in.  Supporting this requirement is much simpler 
with a shared library and that's why most open source libraries support 
shared libraries.

With regards to your build system I'd for one would very much appreciate 
a more traditional system I've thought of doing it myself a few times, 
the one you've got is one of the strangest, least flexible, and prone to 
errors that I've every seen.

For instance your makefiles for windows can't produce running executable 
for dev studio 2008 and above (they don't add the manifests to the 
executable) and I don't think it is possible to fix this with your 
current make structure.

Honestly Ross I like livemedia, it does the job very well and you do a 
pretty good job supporting the community of users but for an open source 
project you've got some pretty strange idea's regarding project management.

Regards
Matt S.



On 12/8/2012 6:26 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> I'm not planning any changes to the 'build system' itself.  I would 
> hope, however, that things like shared libraries could be accommodated 
> by using a different "config.*" file - e.g., perhaps named something 
> like "config.linux-with-shared-libraries" or 
> "config.debian-with-shared-libraries" - and then using the exiting 
> "genMakefiles" tool.  So that's the approach that I would pursue first.
>
> (And as for the suggestion of switching to using 'CMake', see 
> <http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2012-July/015600.html>)
>
> Personally, though, I don't particularly like shared libraries; in 
> this day and age (with disk space and memory being so abundant) 
> they're just more trouble than they're worth.  (The only 'dynamic 
> link' that I hope you put in Debian distributions is a 'link' to the 
> URL "http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/", so that people can download 
> the latest version of the code; the only version that we support :-) 
>  But of course, you're welcome to try building shared libraries if you 
> wish.
>
> Ross Finlayson
> Live Networks, Inc.
> http://www.live555.com/
>
>
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