https://github.com/kanzure/ctypesgen

A pure-python wrapper generator for ctypes
https://github.com/kanzure/ctypesgen

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A pure-python wrapper generator for ctypes

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/kanzure/ctypesgen
• Owner: kanzure
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2013-09-18T02:54:17.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: develop
• Last Pushed: 2016-06-03T11:38:49.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-11T15:56:06.628Z (13 days ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 407 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
                              ctypesgen

                              ---------

                  (c) Ctypesgen developers 2007-2015

                 https://github.com/davidjamesca/ctypesgen

ctypesgen is a pure-python ctypes wrapper generator. It can also

output JSON, which can be used with Mork, which generates bindings for

Lua, using the alien module (which binds libffi to Lua).

Documentation

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See https://github.com/davidjamesca/ctypesgen/wiki for full documentation.

Basic Usage

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This project automatically generates ctypes wrappers for header files written

in C.

For example, if you'd like to generate Neon bindings, you can do so using this

recipe:

  $ python ctypesgen.py -lneon /usr/local/include/neon/ne_*.h -o neon.py

Some libraries, such as APR, need special flags to compile. You can pass these

flags in on the command line.

For example:

$ FLAGS = `apr-1-config --cppflags --includes`

$ python ctypesgen.py $FLAGS -llibapr-1.so $HOME/include/apr-1/apr*.h -o apr.py

Sometimes, libraries will depend on each other. You can specify these

dependencies using -mmodule, where module is the name of the dependency module.

Here's an example for apr_util:

$ python ctypesgen.py $FLAGS -llibaprutil-1.so $HOME/include/apr-1/ap[ru]*.h \

    -mapr -o apr_util.py

If you want JSON output (e.g. for generating Lua bindings), use

--output-language=json. When outputting JSON, you will probably want to use

--all-headers --builtin-symbols --no-stddef-types --no-gnu-types

--no-python-types too.

License

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ctypesgen is distributed under the New (2-clause) BSD License:

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php

libffi is a portable Foreign Function Interface library:

http://sources.redhat.com/libffi/

Mork, the friendly alien, can be found at:

https://github.com/rrthomas/mork