I want to use a C++ library from Python

Uwe Schmitt rocksportrocker at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 11 07:15:09 EDT 2008


On 10 Sep., 09:57, Anders Eriksson <andi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a C++ library compiled as Windows DLL's. It consists of 32 .h and 1
> .lib and 1 .dll files. I don't have the source code.
>
> How can I create a Python module from these files?

Do you need the full library including classes or just some
functions ?
You could write a wrapper in C around the lib and use f2py or ctypes
to call your wrapper from python.
But that does not work if you want to expose classes.

Greetings, Uwe



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