[Tutor] Converting .pyd to .so

[Stefan Behnel]

fall colors, 27.02.2011 20:27:
> I was wondering if it would be possible to convert a .pyd file that works on
> Windows into a .so file that works on Linux?
>
> I gather that it might not be possible to convert the .pyd file if the
> underlying DLL file was built with Windows API calls (Swig was used to wrap
> up the DLL into a pyd file). Is there a wrapper or something that can
> interface to the .pyd to make it Linux compatible?

Well, there's Wine, a free implementation of Windows for Unix systems. You 
can either try to load the DLL using Wine and ctypes (I suspect that's the 
hard way), or just run the Windows Python distribution through Wine and 
load the wrapper .pyd into that.

I assume the DLL is only available in binary form?

Stefan