[IronPython] IronPython ctypes on Linux

[Dino Viehland]

Is there one library name to rule them all on Linux, Mac OS/X, FreeBSD,
etc?  (either common on all the OSes or something coming from a Mono
mapping?)

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> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-
> bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Slide
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> #include <dlfcn.h>
>
> void *dlopen(const char *filename, int flag);
>
> char *dlerror(void);
>
> void *dlsym(void *handle, const char *symbol);
>
> int dlclose(void *handle);
>
> Not quite the same as LoadLibrary.
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Dino Viehland<dinov at microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> > If we just aliased LoadLibrary to dlopen will that work?
> >
> > My hope was that we could basically rely upon Mono's P/Invoke mapping
> > to handle running ctypes on Linux.  But maybe LoadLibrary/dlopen have
> > slightly different sigs and we need to handle that one specially.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
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> >> bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Seo Sanghyeon
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> >> Subject: [IronPython] IronPython ctypes on Linux
> >>
> >> Hopefully I'm not too late on reporthing this...
> >>
> >> If you look at ctypes/__init__.py in Python 2.6, it imports
> different
> >> functions from _ctypes depending on os.name. So on Linux, it expects
> >> dlopen to be available, instead of LoadLibrary.
> >>
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