Hi all I want to write python extensions with FPC (Free Pascal Compiler, http://www.freepascal.org). In Delphi, this is trivially easy due to the great work of the P4D (Python-for-Delphi, http://mmm-experts.com/) guys; however, when aiming for cross-platform binary extensions, that strategy naturally doesn't work.
FPC has great cross-platform support, and to date I have written library units that compile to .dlls (on win32) and .so's (on posix), and then used these via ctypes. This has worked very well, but for certain applications I would prefer to create a new python type via binary extension, rather than a python class with method wrappers around library calls. I could just use C, I guess, but I have a large amount of pascal code that I would like to use, and I would prefer not to fiddle with a C-binary extension intermediate. I have explored the python.h header, and as expected, there appears to be much use of the C standard library. Using a tool that converts a C header into an object pascal unit (intended to be the interface to python.dll) gets me some of the way, but of course, calls to the C stdlib don't get automatically translated into equivalent pascal-coded functionality. I'm afraid I am answering my own question here: is the only way of getting this working to change all the stdlib calls in my newly created pascal unit (created from python.h) to matching functionality in pascal? If there is another, simpler way I'm just not seeing, I would be glad to hear it. Regards Caleb -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
