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The official libshout-2.2.2 release doesn’t build out-of-the-box on Windows.

However, with some effort you can get it to build as a static DLL on Cygwin (if you undefine _WIN32 everywhere and unset some options in config.h)

With even more effort you can build a native Windows .DLL with VisualStudio 2005 but you’ll need to make (at least) the following changes to the project:

1. Get all the dependencies: ogg & vorbis from xiph.org (they should build in VS2005 after migration from VS6 without problems). You’ll also need Win32 pthreads – look it up on Google (the distribution already contains pre-built VS DLLs).
2. Configure the VS2005 solution so that it can find the header and .lib files for ogg, vorbis and pthreads.
3. You need to manually add vorbis.c to the project after the migration to VS2005.
4. Fix compilation errors (i.e. define size_t in vorbis.c, replace va_copy with memcpy, fix void pointer arithmetic)
5. Mark the public API functions as __declspec(dllexport)

I’ve successfully used the so produced DLL with my ctypes-python-shout bindings to connect to a Windows Icecast instance – therefore having the whole stack running entirely on Win32.

I’ll post more details as well as a both binary and source (VS2005 solution) snapshots of libshout 2.2.2 (and all dependencies and required fixes), as soon as I can.