mwlib: reworking re2c files to use ctypes

[Martin Langhoff]

Hi Ralf,

thanks for your reply! I don't mind if you are not interested in the
code (as I have a workaround), however...

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:50 AM,  <schmir at gmail.com> wrote:
> I understand the problem. But dynamically loading shared libraries will
> only create more problems for us.

Why do you think that dynamically loaded libraries will create more problems?

To clarify... you *are* currently using dynamically loaded libraries
:-)  -- if today what you have is:

 - re2c code gets transformed to C
 - C code gets compiled to a .o
 - setup.py uses swig in the background to generate bindings
 - a 'glue' SO is generated from the swig code + the .o, linked to libpython

What I propose removes several moving parts, so it'll be much easier,
and less breakable:

 - re2c code gets transformed to C
 - C code gets compiled and linked to a .so

cheers,


m
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