How to call a function from a shared library ?

[Nigel Rowe]

Tom Van Acker wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm getting overwhelmed by information if I google this question. But
> it is not clear to me. I have a shared library (.so file), created by
> some other company we work with. Now I have to call a certain function
> from this shared library. The declaration looks like this;
> 
> int TransformPoints(void * vel_g, void* vel_i, void* vpoints, int nb)
> ;
> 
> Untill now, I was using the ctypes module to access this function. The
> first two parameters are arrays[0..23] of type double and the third
> parameter is an array[0..2] of type double. Using the ctypes module,
> this works allright.
> 
> But now I have to port this application to other platforms, and I
> cannot use the ctypes module anymore (due to libffi incompatibility).
> Is there another way to do this?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Tom

Maybe Pyrex (http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/).
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