If you want to wrap the library in C I believe you will have to use the standard python API, as boost requires C++ features. It sounds like you do not want to write a wrapper library and instead add code to leptonica to make it python import-able. I would not suggest this approach.
If you want to write a wrapper around the C library in C++ you can use boost python, then in python you would import your wrapper which would allow you to use the C library in python using your C++ wrapper functions. If you just want to add code to this library and make it work in python immediately check out SWIG, although I am not sure if swig produces cpython code or boost python C++ code. On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 6:32 PM, TP <wing...@gmail.com> wrote: > Suppose I am attempting to use a C (not C++) library that has an .h file > with things like this: > > extern PIX * pixCreate ( l_int32 width, l_int32 height, l_int32 depth ); > extern void pixDestroy ( PIX **ppix ); > > extern PIX * pixClone ( PIX *pixs ); > extern PIX * pixCopy ( PIX *pixd, PIX *pixs ); > > Is it possible to use Boost.Python to wrap such functions? > > In particular, note that pixDestroy() is going to want the address of the > pointer returned by pixCreate(). > > (This is from the leptprotos.h file of the Leptonica Image Processing > library at leptonica.com) > > > _______________________________________________ > Cplusplus-sig mailing list > Cplusplus-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cplusplus-sig >
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