[IronPython] IronPython ctypes on Linux

[Dino Viehland]

If we just aliased LoadLibrary to dlopen will that work?

My hope was that we could basically rely upon Mono's P/Invoke mapping
to handle running ctypes on Linux.  But maybe LoadLibrary/dlopen have
slightly different sigs and we need to handle that one specially.

> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Seo Sanghyeon
> Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 5:07 AM
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> Subject: [IronPython] IronPython ctypes on Linux
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> Hopefully I'm not too late on reporthing this...
>
> If you look at ctypes/__init__.py in Python 2.6, it imports different
> functions from _ctypes depending on os.name. So on Linux, it expects
> dlopen to be available, instead of LoadLibrary.
>
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> Seo Sanghyeon
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