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| Date | 2013-06-25 10:05 -0400 |
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| From | Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> |
| Subject | Re: Unable to import NHunspell.dll using ctypes in Python |
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On 06/25/2013 03:58 AM, akshay.ksth@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks Dave. > I'm using Python 2.7 and am working on Linux Mint. > Does it mean that I cant load the functions within the dll whilst on Linux. I thought that was what ctypes was used for. > > Please correct me if I misunderstood what you meant. > ctypes is not for cross-platform development, it's for cross-language development. If you have a shared library for your own system whose interfaces are designed for a static-typed language (usually C), ctypes lets you bridge the gap, and call it from Python. Your best bet is probably either to find a Windows machine, or to run an actual Windows inside a Virtual Box. I do that whenever I have to support an application that's not available for Linux. In either case, you're actually running Windows, so you'll need a Windows python, which knows how to call the Windows LoadLibrary and getProcAddress and other such OS-specific interfaces. There's a possibility that running a Windows version of Python under WINE will work to access a Windows DLL, but the likelihood is so high that there'll be inconsistencies that I wouldn't bother. VirtualBox and WINE are both available in most Linuxes, for example in Synaptic. And they should also be available via apt-get, but I don't know how to find them that way. -- DaveA
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Unable to import NHunspell.dll using ctypes in Python akshay.ksth@gmail.com - 2013-06-24 23:23 -0700
Re: Unable to import NHunspell.dll using ctypes in Python Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-25 08:07 +0100
Re: Unable to import NHunspell.dll using ctypes in Python akshay.ksth@gmail.com - 2013-06-25 00:32 -0700
Re: Unable to import NHunspell.dll using ctypes in Python Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-06-25 03:45 -0400
Re: Unable to import NHunspell.dll using ctypes in Python Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 09:54 +0200
Re: Unable to import NHunspell.dll using ctypes in Python Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-06-25 09:55 -0400
Re: Unable to import NHunspell.dll using ctypes in Python akshay.ksth@gmail.com - 2013-06-25 00:58 -0700
Re: Unable to import NHunspell.dll using ctypes in Python Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-06-25 10:05 -0400
Re: Unable to import NHunspell.dll using ctypes in Python akshay.ksth@gmail.com - 2013-06-25 01:04 -0700
Re: Unable to import NHunspell.dll using ctypes in Python Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 10:32 +0200
Re: Unable to import NHunspell.dll using ctypes in Python akshay.ksth@gmail.com - 2013-06-25 07:52 -0700
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