Re: [pygccxml-development] [ANN] Py++ based ctypes code generator

[Roman Y. <rom...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Gustavo Carneiro <gjc...@gm...> wrote:
> This is potentially very useful!  Generated Python code can be shipped with
> any project and is (almost) platform independent without need for
> compilation; you just run Python code.

This is my goal :-)

> However I have to wonder how (if) do you support C++ calling conventions.

I think, I was not clear. You can compile C code using C and/or C++
compiler. Py++ supports both modes. In the second mode the calling
convention is same as in C, but name mangling is different

> Things like:
>    - How to pass the 'this' parameter to call methods;
>    - Function/method overloading.
>
> I have followed the path of C++ code generation precisely because of the
> difficulty of calling C++ code via libffi, or else I would probably have
> contributed to the gobject-introspection and pybank projects.  I thought
> ctypes did not support C++?

Just read few mails, with ctypes-cpp in the subject:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=ctypes-users

and take a look on easybmp example(
http://pygccxml.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pygccxml/pyplusplus_dev/examples/pyeasybmp_dev/ctypes/
)

-- 
Roman Yakovenko
C++ Python language binding
http://www.language-binding.net/