[Live-devel] Upstream support for windows DLLs

[Marcin Czernow]

Perhaps this is a random comment, but I am successfully building live555 (as a dll) for Windows using MinGW , without any changes to the code.

Regs,

Marcin
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From: live-devel <live-devel-bounces at us.live555.com> on behalf of Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live555.com>
Sent: Friday, April 3, 2026 8:52 AM
To: LIVE555 Streaming Media - development & use <live-devel at us.live555.com>
Subject: Re: [Live-devel] Upstream support for windows DLLs



> On Apr 2, 2026, at 3:10 PM, Russell Greene via live-devel <live-devel at us.live555.com> wrote:
>
> The structure of Live555 is not setup for Windows DLLs at all, as there is a cyclic dep between BasicUsageEnvironment and UsageEnvironment.
>
> BasicUsageEnvironment has a straightforward dep on most of UsgaeEnvironment, so that one is not much of a mystery.
>
> UsageEnvironment has a dependency of BasicUsageEnvironment because it calls Iterator::create in HashTable::RemoveNext
>
> This means it cannot be built as a shared library on Windows because Windows does not support cyclic dependenciecs between dll's.
>
> Would you be open to patches that do some minor refactoring to not have cyclic dependencies between the libraries?

Yeah, sure - I’d consider such a patch, it it’s not too disruptive.

(Note, though, that continued support for Windows isn’t guaranteed.  Windows support may well be discontinued in the near future.)


Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/


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