Author: Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org>
Branch:
Changeset: r2161:21154b1d1666
Date: 2015-06-03 08:44 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/changeset/21154b1d1666/
Log: Rewords
diff --git a/doc/source/overview.rst b/doc/source/overview.rst
--- a/doc/source/overview.rst
+++ b/doc/source/overview.rst
@@ -82,7 +82,10 @@
from _simple_example import ffi
- lib = ffi.dlopen(None) # or path to a library (see below for
Windows)
+ lib = ffi.dlopen(None) # Unix: open the standard C library
+ #import ctypes.util # or, try this on Windows:
+ #lib = ffi.dlopen(ctypes.util.find_library("c"))
+
lib.printf(b"hi there, number %d\n", ffi.cast("int", 2))
Note that this ``ffi.dlopen()``, unlike the one from in-line mode,
@@ -91,9 +94,8 @@
``dlopen()`` or ``LoadLibrary()`` functions. This means that
``ffi.dlopen("libfoo.so")`` is ok, but ``ffi.dlopen("foo")`` is not.
In the latter case, you could replace it with
-``ffi.dlopen(ctypes.util.find_library("foo"))``. Also, on
-Windows, passing None to open the standard C library does not work;
-try instead ``ffi.dlopen(ctypes.util.find_library("c"))``.
+``ffi.dlopen(ctypes.util.find_library("foo"))``. Also, None is only
+recognized on Unix to open the standard C library.
For distribution purposes, remember that there is a new
``_simple_example.py`` file generated. You can either include it
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