[Python-3000] C API for ints and strings (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Sep 10 02:13:04 CEST 2007

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

b) Use a suitable shared library mechanism for linking with the Library. A suitable mechanism is one that (1) uses at run time a copy of the library already present on the user's computer system, rather than copying library functions into the executable, and (2) will operate properly with a modified version of the library, if the user installs one, as long as the modified version is interface-compatible with the version that the work was made with.

So this is only an option if "a copy of the library [is] already present on the user's computer system". This may work for Linux, but not for Windows, or Solaris (not sure about OSX).

I think it's just trying to say dynamic rather than static linking, not that the library has to be a pre-existing one. The important thing is that the library can be updated just by replacing a file, without having to re-link the executable.

So Windows DLLs qualify, as far as I can see.

-- Greg

More information about the Python-3000 mailing list