Problem in calling custom shared library from python

Hello,

I'm introducing myself to the ctypes python extension, and it really seems
suiting my needs for the current project. I've been writing a test program
to teach myself the secrets of ctypes, and it runs very well, apart from a
slight problem.

I'm running the code on 64-bit linux box. I have created a shared library,
with a C API, as defined in my testlib_core.h:

#ifndef testlib_core_h
#define testlib_core_h
int init(void);
int store(int);
int get(void);
int clear(void);
int destroy(void);
#endif // testlib_core_h

Behind of that API I have a c++ singleton class implementation which
handles eventually all the requests made through the API. All this works
well in basic principle. However, the problem is the methods for calling
the API. I cannot use the names defined in the declarations, e.g. init(),
store(), etc. If I call directly their mangled counterparts, like in this
case _Z4initv() and _Z5storei(), those work just as I need.

I figured that I would need the h2xml/xml2py conversion tools, but the
problem there is that the .py output from xml2py is empty. The XML file
itself is ok, and it contains all the information which exists in my shared
lib, but still the only thing which exports into the .py file is only these
lines:

from ctypes import *
__all__ = []

Which is not helping much. So, taking a look at the simplicity of the
header file above, I do not understand why I cannot get the automatic
python generation of the API to work.

Any advice for the newbie fellow in ctypes world? :)

Br
- jarkko

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