[Numpy-discussion] Calling routines from a Fortran library using python

Nils Wagner nwagner at iam.uni-stuttgart.de
Mon Feb 22 08:01:28 EST 2010


On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:29:39 +0900
  David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Nils Wagner
> <nwagner at iam.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:55:07 +0100
>>  Matthieu Brucher <matthieu.brucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Ok I have extracted the *.o files from the static
>>>>library.
>>>>
>>>> Applying the file command to the object files yields
>>>>
>>>> ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable, AMD x86-64, version 1
>>>>(SYSV),
>>>> not stripped
>>>>
>>>> What's that supposed to mean ?
>>>
>>> It means that each object file is an object file
>>>compiled with -fPIC,
>>> so you just have to make a shared library (gfortran
>>>-shared *.o -o
>>> libmysharedlibrary.so)
>>>
>>> Then, you can try to open the library with ctypes. If
>>>something is
>>> lacking, you may have to add -lsome_library to the
>>>gfortran line.
>>>
>>> Matthieu
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>>
>> O.k. I tried
>>
>> gfortran -shared *.o -o libmysharedlibrary.so
>>
>> /usr/bin/ld: dxop.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a
>> local symbol' can not be used when making a shared 
>>object;
>> recompile with -fPIC
> 
> The message is pretty explicit: it is not compiled with 
>-fPIC, there
> is nothing you can do, short of requesting a shared 
>library from the
> software vendor.
> 
> David
  
Hi,

Meanwhile I received a static library (including -fPIC 
support) from the software vendor.
Now I have used

ar x test.a
gfortran -shared *.o -o libtest.so -lg2c

to build a shared library. The additional option -lg2c was 
necessary due to an undefined symbol: s_cmp

Now I am able to load the shared library

from ctypes import *
my_lib = CDLL('test.so')

What are the next steps to use the library functions 
within python ?

Nils



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