[Python-Dev] ctypes is in SVN now. (original) (raw)

Thomas Heller theller at python.net
Thu Mar 9 17:17:01 CET 2006

Giovanni Bajo wrote:

Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> wrote:

Missing are .vcproj files for Windows, both for the ctypes.pyd extension and the ctypestest.pyd extension needed for testing. IIRC, Martin promised to create them - is this offer still valid? I could do that myself, but only for x86, while other .pyd files also have build settings for Itanium and x8664. (I find it always very painful to click through the settings dialog in MSVC - isn't there any other way to create these files?) I discussed with Martin a bit about the opportunity of generating .vcproj files with a script-driven tool. I'm going to try and setup something as soon as I find some spare time. The goal of this work would exactly fit your need: make the creation of extension modules trivially easy (just as easy as adding the modules to the main python.dll). My personal goal, in fact, is to move many of those builtin extension modules from python.dll out into their own .pyd files where they'd belong (were not for this technical annoyance of being forced to use the settings dialog in MSVC).

Ideally this would be integrated with distutils because the setup-script has most of the information that's needed.

OTOH, extensions could be built with distutils even for core Python, and even on Windows. For extensions that are not builtin or not included with Python itself distutils works good enough.

Oh, IIRC the pywin32 setup script has code that is able to parse MSVC6 project files and create a distutils Extension instance from them - maybe this can help you.

Thomas

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