
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:21:03 +0900 David Cournapeau <david@silveregg.co.jp> wrote:
Nils Wagner wrote:
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:32:18 +0900 David Cournapeau <david@silveregg.co.jp> wrote:
Hi all,
I have a static library (*.a) compiled by gfortran but no source files. How can I call routines from that library using python ? Is there any kind of interface (.h, etc...) ? If this is a proprietary
Nils Wagner wrote: library, there has to be something so that it can be called from C, and anything that can be called from C can be called from python. If you don't know at least the functions signatures, it will be very difficult (you would have to disassemble the code to find how the functions are called, etc...).
cheers,
David
Hi David,
you are right. It's a proprietary library. I found a header file (*.h) including prototype declarations of externally callable procedures.
How can I proceed ?
Exactly as you would do for a C library (ctypes, cython, by hand, swig, etc...). Once you have the header (plus the C->Fortran ABI convention, which depend on your compilers and platforms), it is exactly as calling a C function in a C library,
cheers,
David
To be honest that's over my head. I mean I have never used C before. Where can I find a step-by-step example for my task ? Nils