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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.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> live-devel <live-devel-bounces@us.live555.com> on behalf of Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live555.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 3, 2026 8:52 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> LIVE555 Streaming Media - development & use <live-devel@us.live555.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Live-devel] Upstream support for windows DLLs</font>
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> On Apr 2, 2026, at 3:10 PM, Russell Greene via live-devel <live-devel@us.live555.com> wrote:<br>
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> The structure of Live555 is not setup for Windows DLLs at all, as there is a cyclic dep between BasicUsageEnvironment and UsageEnvironment.
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> BasicUsageEnvironment has a straightforward dep on most of UsgaeEnvironment, so that one is not much of a mystery.
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> UsageEnvironment has a dependency of BasicUsageEnvironment because it calls Iterator::create in HashTable::RemoveNext<br>
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> This means it cannot be built as a shared library on Windows because Windows does not support cyclic dependenciecs between dll's.<br>
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> Would you be open to patches that do some minor refactoring to not have cyclic dependencies between the libraries?<br>
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Yeah, sure - I’d consider such a patch, it it’s not too disruptive.<br>
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(Note, though, that continued support for Windows isn’t guaranteed. Windows support may well be discontinued in the near future.)<br>
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Ross Finlayson<br>
Live Networks, Inc.<br>
<a href="http://www.live555.com/">http://www.live555.com/</a><br>
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