On Thursday 03 April 2008, Thomas Heller wrote: > Phil Thompson schrieb: > > On Thursday 03 April 2008, Thomas Heller wrote: > >> Phil Thompson schrieb: > >> > Could somebody confirm how well ctypes is supported on HP-UX (for both > >> > PA-RISC and Itanium) for both Python v2.4 and v2.5? > >> > >> I cannot answer your question, but if you want to try it out > >> yourself there is the HP testdrive program: http://www.testdrive.hp.com/ > > > > Thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately the answer is that there is no > > support (at least for ctypes v1.0.2). > > I tried out the current SVN version of Python myself. ctypes doesn't > compile on the PA system (the libffi assembler code fails to compile), but > I did get it to work on the Itanium system with gcc (I had to set > LDSHARED="gcc -shared" before configuring). Even the ctypes unittests pass > on this system. > > In theory, the ctypes code should be backwards-compatible with python 2.4, > although in practice it currently is not, but IMO it should be possible to > change it accordingly. > > Would this be useful to you?
Thanks, but no. A combination of ctypes for Windows and the dl module for everything else will probably meet my needs. Phil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
