Author: Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> Branch: Changeset: r3000:50aa734652c8 Date: 2017-08-12 15:12 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/changeset/50aa734652c8/
Log: Mention that ffi.dlopen(None) does not work on Python 3 on Windows. diff --git a/doc/source/overview.rst b/doc/source/overview.rst --- a/doc/source/overview.rst +++ b/doc/source/overview.rst @@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ arguments. In the above example it would be ``b"world"`` and ``b"hi there, %s!\n"``. In general it is ``somestring.encode(myencoding)``. +*Python 3 on Windows:* ``ffi.dlopen(None)`` does not work. This problem +is messy and not really fixable. The example above could be fixed by +calling another function from a specific DLL that exists on your system. + *This example does not call any C compiler. It works in the so-called ABI mode, which means that it will crash if you call some function or access some fields of a structure that was slightly misdeclared in the _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
