On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > On 2016-04-11 15:23, Erik Bray wrote: >> >> In this case I really do want the symbol "hello" to be >> exported by the DLL, as well as be understood between translation >> units making up the same library. > > > Are you really sure that you want this? I doubt that this is supported on OS > X: on OS X, there are two kinds of files: shared libraries (with .dylib > extension) and loadable modules or bundles (usually with .so extension but > officially with .bundle extension). > > C extensions for Python are compiled as a loadable module and I don't think > you can link against these. See > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2339679/what-are-the-differences-between-so-and-dylib-on-osx > > Some details in the above might be wrong, but I remember running into this > issue in some early version of cysignals.
OSX issues aside, I was under the impression that this is needed for cysignals in particular. If I'm wrong on that then this simplifies matters a good deal, and per njs Cython could just drop the use of DL_IMPORT and we'd be fine. _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
