This tip only applies if you're: On Windows Writing a COM (Component Object Model) wrapper for pyCUDA Using pywin32 for COM
My goal is to write a COM wrapper for my physics CUDA code (written in pyCUDA using a SourceModule) so I can talk to it from MSVC and Excel. The problem this tip solves is that by default a pywin32 COM module runs both InProc (In Process) and as a LocalServer (as an exe out of the calling process). For whatever reason the InProc execution policy causes an '80004005' error when you try to call a pyCUDA module over COM. The lack of a hint has cost me a day to solve this problem so, if you're doing this, add the following line to your COM specification so your module runs purely as a LocalServer and the error won't occur: _reg_clsctx_ = pythoncom.CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER (and "import pythoncom" somewhere above) If the above doesn't make sense then see: http://oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32/chapter/ch12.html#51294 for a guide to a simple COM wrapper, just add the _reg_clsctx_ line after _reg_clsid_ from the example. Ian. -- Ian Ozsvald (A.I. researcher, screencaster) i...@ianozsvald.com http://IanOzsvald.com http://MorConsulting.com/ http://blog.AICookbook.com/ http://TheScreencastingHandbook.com http://FivePoundApp.com/ http://twitter.com/IanOzsvald _______________________________________________ PyCUDA mailing list PyCUDA@tiker.net http://lists.tiker.net/listinfo/pycuda
