Hi, when developing boost::python or SIP-based extension modules, we have repeatedly had the need to use C++ classes or functions from other modules. (E.g. I might have a foocmodule and a corresponding unit test module.) A good use case is a boost::python-like registry (with a slightly different purpose), which should be shared across multiple modules.
However, I have always been facing the problem that this seemed to require a common shared library (à la libboost_python), but this is a) overkill e.g. in the case of only a single required function (get_registry()), and b) not supported (AFAIK) by distutils/setuptools (i.e. building shared libraries requires lengthy, possibly non-portable hacks). It would be great if I could somehow tell the dynamic linker to resolve against the function definition in the other module (and in fact it works at least on Linux to link against libfoocmodule.so, but IIRC that's not portable). What are your recommendations/experiences? Thanks, Hans _______________________________________________ Cplusplus-sig mailing list Cplusplus-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cplusplus-sig
