On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 22:05 +0000, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 12/03/14 16:49, Stefan Behnel wrote: > > Alan Gauld, 12.03.2014 10:11: > >> If it were a library then you would have to call > >> the individual C++ functions directly using > >> something like ctypes, which is usually more > >> complex. > > > > ctypes won't talk to C++, but Cython can do it quite easily. > > I thought it would work provided the interface functions > were declared as C functions? That might involve > writing a wrapper around it but that is usually > trivial if you have to compile the source anyway.
ctypes (and CFFI) talks quite happily to C++ functions as long as they
are declared with C linkage (so as to avoid any "name mangling"):
export "C" x f(…){…}
makes f accessible via ctypes if f is in a shared object/dynamic link
library.
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