distutils, win32, multiple C extensions
Hello, I am a researcher in Applied Math. For my work I write a lot of code and right now I am moving to python. I am writing some C extensions (using swig). I wrote a first extension (a python module) which I'll call E1. I wrote a setup.py which works fine on all platforms. On Windows 7 it creates a library which is a .pyd file Now I want to write a second C extension E2 that is calling some functions of E1. The same kind of setup.py works fine on all platforms but Windows where it says (during the link) that the function sof E1 that are called by E2 are unreferenced. I am clearly not a Windows pro ... I am using mingw32 on Windows. Surfing the web, I understood that shared libraries work differently on windows than on other platforms. And that I should 1- export the symbols (i.e., the functions) of E1 when I build E1. In the distutils.Extension this seems to be done using argument export_symbols=[list of symbols to export] Now I have one problem : each time I specify in this list the name of a function in E1 it says that it doesn't know this symbol What am I doing wrong here, is there a special syntax ? 2- Now in the setup.py of E2 how do I declare that I want to use the E1 shared lib.? Is the information on the exported symbol of E1 in the .pyd file or in the .def file ? I tried to specify the .pyd library in the arguments of the distutils.Extension .... but I have the feeling that's not the right thing to do (I have the feeling the .pyd is not the right file to point to) Not mentioning the problem specifying the path of the library with runtime_library_dirs ... which does not seem to work at all. Is there a simple way to do what I want to do ? I did not find anything on the web explaining clearly what to do ... I am really really stuck I would appreciate any kind of help Emmanuel
Python-List (http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list) is the better place for this kind of question; Python-Dev is for the development of Python itself, not for development using Python. When you built E1, it should have also built a ".lib" file in addition to the ".pyd". It's the .lib that needs to be referenced when building E2. If it did not, you may find this link helpful: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/CreateImportLibraries On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Emmanuel Bacry < emmanuel.bacry@polytechnique.fr> wrote:
Python-List (http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list) is the better place for this kind of question; Python-Dev is for the development of Python itself, not for development using Python. When you built E1, it should have also built a ".lib" file in addition to the ".pyd". It's the .lib that needs to be referenced when building E2. If it did not, you may find this link helpful: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/CreateImportLibraries On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Emmanuel Bacry < emmanuel.bacry@polytechnique.fr> wrote:
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