[vorbis-dev] Compiling ogg lib on VC6...

[Monty]

> 
> 
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Jonathan Blow wrote:
> 
> > Kovacs wrote:
> > > 
> > > Those project files in vorbis_vc6 dir builds a static library. But ok, i
> > > will make my own project file for it.
> > 
> > The static library thing is because, at least in the near term, the
> > interfaces for vorbis were changing a lot so I felt that it was a good
> > idea not to pretend that a dynamic library would be of any use.
> > If there is enough demand, and if things have stabilized on the
> > API end, I'll add a dynamic library to the vc6 project that's in the
> > tree.
> > 
> > Any comments on this?
> > 
> 
> Yep... It would be nice... ;) Because if interface wont be changing too
> much it will be easy to update library if it will be dll, without
> recompiling working program. Besides- as vorbis is under lgpl, then
> everybody should be able to relink vorbis, just by updating dll, not that
> programmers should provide their object files to do this.

Unfortunately, the library interface will be changing over the near future.  
I'd like to have it stabilized eventually, but this will require some serious 
work in completely insulating the psychoacoustic tuning interface from 
everything else.

(the playback interface, obviously, is much easier)

Monty

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