[Python-Dev] ctypes is in SVN now.

[Giovanni Bajo]

Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> wrote:

> Missing are .vcproj files for Windows, both for the _ctypes.pyd extension
> and the _ctypes_test.pyd extension needed for testing.  IIRC, Martin
> promised to create them - is this offer still valid? I could do that
> myself, but only for x86, while other .pyd files also have build settings
> for Itanium and x86_64.  (I find it always very painful to click through
> the settings dialog in MSVC - isn't there any other way to create these
> files?)


I discussed with Martin a bit about the opportunity of generating .vcproj
files with a script-driven tool. I'm going to try and setup something as
soon as I find some spare time.

The goal of this work would exactly fit your need: make the creation of
extension modules trivially easy (just as easy as adding the modules to the
main python.dll). My personal goal, in fact, is to move many of those
builtin extension modules from python.dll out into their own .pyd files
where they'd belong (were not for this technical annoyance of being forced
to use the settings dialog in MSVC).
-- 
Giovanni Bajo