On Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 12:48:53 UTC, Chris wrote:
I tried extern (C) which has some advantages. However, it still
doesn't produce the desired result (tried slicing too).
extern(C) {
export void synthesize(ref char[] str) {
printf("Incoming printf: %s\n", &str);
writefln("writefln %s", &str);
writefln("writefln %s", to!string(&str));
writefln("writefln %s", to!string(str));
}
}
OUTPUT:
Incoming printf: Hello from Python
writefln 2366A34
writefln 2366A34
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "loaddll.py", line 4, in <module>
lib.printThis(c_char_p("Hello from Python"))
WindowsError: [Error -532414463] Windows Error 0xE0440001
Your function is being called from Python, correct? Then in
addition to the extern(C), the argument needs to be a char*, not
a D array or a reference to one.
