On 06/25/2013 03:58 AM, akshay.k...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Dave.
I'm using Python 2.7 and am working on Linux Mint.
Does it mean that I cant load the functions within the dll whilst on Linux. I
thought that was what ctypes was used for.
Please correct me if I misunderstood what you meant.
ctypes is not for cross-platform development, it's for cross-language
development. If you have a shared library for your own system whose
interfaces are designed for a static-typed language (usually C), ctypes
lets you bridge the gap, and call it from Python.
Your best bet is probably either to find a Windows machine, or to run an
actual Windows inside a Virtual Box. I do that whenever I have to
support an application that's not available for Linux. In either case,
you're actually running Windows, so you'll need a Windows python, which
knows how to call the Windows LoadLibrary and getProcAddress and other
such OS-specific interfaces.
There's a possibility that running a Windows version of Python under
WINE will work to access a Windows DLL, but the likelihood is so high
that there'll be inconsistencies that I wouldn't bother.
VirtualBox and WINE are both available in most Linuxes, for example in
Synaptic. And they should also be available via apt-get, but I don't
know how to find them that way.
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