Re: Python, Boost and Windows

From: Kevin Marty (kmarty_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-21 19:36:02

--- In boost_at_y..., "David Abrahams" <abrahams_at_m...> wrote:
> 
> 
> BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE_INIT is a macro which is specially-designed for 
building
> DLLs/shared objects. Its definition is:
> 
>   #define BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE_INIT(name) extern "C" __declspec
(dllexport)
> void init##name()
> 
> So it just ends up defining a void function called init<module-name>
(). You
> probably don't want to use it because of the dllexport stuff, but 
some
> similar function definition makes sense. Now you just have to 
figure out how
> to get Python to load a statically-linked module by executing your 
module
> initialization function.
> 

I've been working on embedding Python in an application of mine for 
the last few days, and I can confirm that Boost works fine.  I just 
defined my own initModule() function instead of using 
BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE_INIT to get around the __declspec(dllexport) 
issue, and then called my initModule() right after Py_Initialize() 
from my main program.  Then, start the script off with "import 
modulename" and it just works.

Thanks for the great library,
Kevin