[Python-Dev] cffi in stdlib (original) (raw)

Richard Oudkerk shibturn at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 12:45:14 CET 2013

On 27/02/2013 9:21am, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:

>That's somehting that will have to be resolved before cffi can be included in the stdlib, fat binaries are supported by CPython and are used the binary installers. > >Ronald if cpython supports it and you can load it using dlopen, it does work then (it really is just building a C extension on the API level).

On Windows ctypes has CDLL for libraries using the cdecl calling convention and WINDLL for libraries with the stdcall calling convention.

I can't see any similar distinction in cffi's documentation. Can cffi magically work out which calling convention to use, or are you restricted to the cdecl calling convention?

-- Richard

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