I'll try the ctypes... thanks for pointing me in the right direction and your help is much appreciated.
Ash On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Jeff Hardy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Ashley Abraham <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Jeff, > > I think I miss read your reply, what you are saying is that if it > based > > on ctypes it will work in IronPython as well is it?? I thought you needed > > IronClad and so on make it work. > > Yeah, with ctypes IronPython can call native code directly - it > actually uses P/Invoke behind the scenes to do it. Python also > implements ctypes, as do Jython and PyPy, so any code that you write > using ctypes should work on any Python implementation. > > I haven't tested this (seeing as I don't have the exact DLL) but it > should be pretty close: > > from ctypes import * > vniwave = CDLL('vniwave.dll') > > cwavec = vniwave.cwavec > cwavec.restype = c_int > cwavec.argtypes = [c_int, c_int, POINTER(c_char_p)] > > The only part I'm not sure about is the string[] - I'm assuming the C > function takes a char**. > > Alternatively, you could write the P/Invoke declarations in a C# class > library and load that into IronPython using clr.AddReference, but I'd > recommend using ctypes. > > - Jeff > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com >
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