[Numpy-discussion] Calling routines from a Fortran library using python

[David Cournapeau]

Nils Wagner wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:32:18 +0900
>   David Cournapeau <david at silveregg.co.jp> wrote:
>> Nils Wagner wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have a static  library (*.a) compiled by gfortran but 
>>> no 
>>> source files.
>>> How can I call routines from that library using python ?
>> Is there any kind of interface (.h, etc...) ? If this is 
>> a proprietary 
>> library, there has to be something so that it can be 
>> called from C, and 
>> anything that can be called from C can be called from 
>> python. If you 
>> don't know at least the functions signatures, it will be 
>> very difficult 
>> (you would have to disassemble the code to find how the 
>> functions are 
>> called, etc...).
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> David
>   
> Hi David,
> 
> you are right. It's a proprietary library.
> I found a header file (*.h) including prototype 
> declarations of externally callable procedures.
> 
> How can I proceed ?

Exactly as you would do for a C library (ctypes, cython, by hand, swig, 
etc...). Once you have the header (plus the C->Fortran ABI convention, 
which depend on your compilers and platforms), it is exactly as calling 
a C function in a C library,

cheers,

David