Re: How to disable RTLD_NOW for Python 2.7.x dlopen() in Mac OS X Mavericks?

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Subject	Re: How to disable RTLD_NOW for Python 2.7.x dlopen() in Mac OS X Mavericks?
Date	Wed, 13 Nov 2013 19:44:44 -0800
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In article <c9bc3283-e895-4d9f-a749-fc35497a875e@googlegroups.com>,
 tcwan99@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm facing a problem with a 3rd party C/C++ Framework (dynamic library) on 
> Mac OS X which I'm trying to import into Python using ctypes. Unfortunately 
> OS X has deprecated a function which is called from the Framework and is no 
> longer available as of 10.8+ (Mtn. Lion, now updated to Mavericks). In 
> addition, there is no recent version of the 3rd party framework available and 
> it does not look like it's actively updated. (The 3rd party framework in 
> question is the Fantom framework/driver for the LEGO Mindstorms NXT/EV3).
> 
> Existing tools using the 3rd party framework runs ok, but attempting to 
> access it using ctypes fails with a Symbol not Found error when Python 2.7.x 
> attempts to dlopen() the library. I suspect it is due to the setting of 
> RTLD_NOW when opening the framework. I'd like to try to specify RTLD_LAZY 
> instead.
> 
> Unfortunately sys.setdlopenflags(0) does not appear to do anything. RTLD_NOW 
> is still set, which I presume overrides RTLD_LAZY if both flags were set. 
> I've tried this with both the Apple supplied python and the version from 
> MacPorts.
> 
> Enclosed is a snippet of the code and the Traceback. Is there a way to force 
> RTLD_NOW off?

I'm not very familiar with ctypes internals but it looks like 
sys.setdlopenflags is not intended to have an influence on ctypes; rather, it 
conditions the Python interpreter's use of dlopen to load shared Python 
modules.  For ctypes itself, it looks like it unconditionally sets RTLD_NOW 
when calling dlopen and probably with good reason:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c#l1432

Sorry, I don't have a suggestion for you, assuming you want to just try to 
ignore the error, other than perhaps running an older version of OS X in a VM 
on 10.8.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad@acm.org

Thread

How to disable RTLD_NOW for Python 2.7.x dlopen() in Mac OS X Mavericks? tcwan99@gmail.com - 2013-11-13 17:08 -0800
  Re: How to disable RTLD_NOW for Python 2.7.x dlopen() in Mac OS X Mavericks? Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2013-11-13 19:44 -0800
    Re: How to disable RTLD_NOW for Python 2.7.x dlopen() in Mac OS X Mavericks? Tat-Chee Wan <tcwan99@gmail.com> - 2013-11-14 18:30 -0800

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