{"id":13555,"date":"2019-03-25T14:25:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.linphone.org\/?post_type=actualites&p=13555"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:22:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:22:47","slug":"towards-win32-and-uwp-convergence","status":"publish","type":"actualites","link":"https:\/\/www.linphone.org\/en\/news\/towards-win32-and-uwp-convergence\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards Win32 and UWP convergence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Currently we have two distincts projects for building Liblinphone on Windows:<\/p>\n

The first one is a Win32 port, which is available since many years and supports all versions of the Windows operating system. In this project, our library is callable in C language or in Cpp thanks to a wrapper. The Linphone desktop edition that we are publishing is based on this Win32 port.<\/p>\n

In 2016, we released a UWP (Universal Windows Platform) port of Liblinphone, that permits developers to create UWP apps leveraging on Liblinphone through a C# wrapper. Unfortunately, this port only works on Windows 10 as UWP is only available since Windows 10.<\/p>\n

Thanks to recent compatibility between Win32 and UWP technologies introduced by Microsoft, UWP apps can now link to a Win32 library. We have decided to unify our two projects, creating a unique Linphone SDK, comprising C, Cpp and C# APIs, suitable to create apps for any version of Windows including UWP app for Windows 10.\u00a0The expected benefit is to greatly facilitate the integration of Liblinphone engine by Windows developers, C# being the main cornerstone of the Windows platform.<\/p>\n

The outcome of this unification work is scheduled for next July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"actualites-category":[42],"class_list":["post-13555","actualites","type-actualites","status-publish","hentry","actualites-category-tech"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTowards Win32 and UWP convergence - Linphone<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linphone.org\/en\/news\/towards-win32-and-uwp-convergence\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Towards Win32 and UWP convergence - Linphone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Currently we have two distincts projects for building Liblinphone on Windows: The first one is a Win32...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.linphone.org\/en\/news\/towards-win32-and-uwp-convergence\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Linphone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-01T13:22:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linphone.org\\\/en\\\/news\\\/towards-win32-and-uwp-convergence\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linphone.org\\\/en\\\/news\\\/towards-win32-and-uwp-convergence\\\/\",\"name\":\"Towards Win32 and UWP convergence - 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