SRS for Windows
SRS 5.0.89+ supports Windows(Cygwin64).
Build from code
Please install Cygwin64.
Install packages gcc-g++
make
automake
patch
pkg-config
tcl
cmake
, please see packages.
Build SRS with cygwin terminal:
git checkout develop
./configure
make
If success, there should be a ./objs/srs.exe
, please follow Getting Started to use it.
Install from binary
For each release of SRS, from SRS 5.0.89, there is always a binary installer of SRS Windows, normally as the artifact of release, which allows you to install and run SRS very easy.
Bellow is some examples, note that you should always use the latest release, not the fixed one:
Note: SRS 5.0.89+ supports cygwin pipeline, to build and packge automatically by GitHub Actions.
Run SRS as administrator:
Publish to SRS Windows by FFmpeg:
ffmpeg -re -i ~/srs/doc/source.flv -c copy -f flv rtmp://win11/live/livestream
Play by VLC or srs-player
Most of SRS features are available in Windows, for example, RTMP, HTTP-FLV, HLS, WebRTC, HTTP-API, Prometheus Exporter, etc.
Package by NSIS
If want to package by NSIS, please run in cygwin terminal:
"/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/NSIS/makensis.exe" \
/DSRS_VERSION=$(./objs/srs -v 2>&1) \
/DCYGWIN_DIR="C:\cygwin64" \
packaging/nsis/srs.nsi
Known Issues
- Cygwin: Build with SRT is ok, but crash when running. #3251
- Cygwin: Support address sanitizer for windows. #3252
- Cygwin: ST stuck when working in multiple threads mode. #3253
- Cygwin: Support iocp and windows native build. #3256
- Cygwin: Build srtp with openssl fail for no srtp_aes_icm_ctx_t #3254
Links
ST supports windows: https://github.com/ossrs/state-threads/issues/20
Commits about SRS Windows: https://github.com/ossrs/srs-windows/issues/2
Windows docker also works for SRS, however, srs.exe
is more popular for windows developers.
Winlin 2022.11