wlidcli.dll

Source	src/wlidcli/
CMake target	wlidcli
Type	Win32 DLL
Family	Platform services targets

At a glance

The Windows Live ID client surface: sign-in state, credential checks, tickets, and identity handles. On modern Windows the service behind it no longer exists, so this is a delay-loaded optional component — the app must survive its absence (Quirk #11).

Public surface

From wlidcli.def — note the sparse, non-sequential ordinals, inherited from the original DLL's larger historical export table:

WLClogin                @2
WLCheckCredentials      @3
WLCreateIdentityHandle  @8
WLGetTicket             @29
WLIsSignedIn            @41
WLFreeMemory            @108
WLGetEnvironment        @113

Implementation notes

• The export ordinal gaps (2, 3, 8, 29, 41, 108, 113) are part of the parity contract — legacy consumers may bind by ordinal.
• Reconstruction behavior: the identity surface is inert but secure — no network calls, no credential persistence (the auth/storage stub category); tokens handed out are empty and WLIsSignedIn reports signed-out unless an in-memory session exists.
• Links only the base system set (kernel32, user32, ole32, oleaut32, advapi32).

Testing

• Contract coverage (ordinals + inert behavior) in tests/mmr-python.

Analysis artifacts

analysis/Shared/ (wlidcli shares the WLX foundation analysis) and analysis/CrossDllImports/.