[Live-devel] shared library

2012-12-08 Thread Benjamin Drung
Hi, we like to have a shared library of liblivemedia in Debian and Ubuntu [1]. This requires two things: First adjust the build system to create a shared library and second take care of proper SONAME, ABI/API changes management. I would be willing to help changing the build system to create a sha

Re: [Live-devel] shared library

2012-12-08 Thread Ross Finlayson
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" - an

Re: [Live-devel] shared library

2012-12-08 Thread 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 applica

Re: [Live-devel] shared library

2012-12-08 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Samstag, den 08.12.2012, 06:26 -0800 schrieb Ross Finlayson: > 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-

Re: [Live-devel] shared library

2012-12-08 Thread Ross Finlayson
>> 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-libr