Re: static libraries

Reuben Thomas wrote, On 01/16/2011 08:07 PM:
> On 16 January 2011 00:57, Mads Kiilerich<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> ctypes works fine for me wrapping dynamic libraries (.dll and .so on
>> windows, linux and mac).
>>
>> Now one of the libraries I'm wrapping changes to being provided as a
>> static library (.lib and .a).
> Can you not just link your executable so it's dlopen-able, then use
> ctypes as normal, but using your executable as the library?

Which executable? The library? It is a library that I don't control. 
Creating some kind of wrapper which I do control is one of the options, 
but I would rather avoid creating these two wrapper layers for the 
library: one in C that has to be compiled for each platform on each 
update and one in Python/ctypes.

/Mads


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