[Ilugc] re: building python extension

[Sudharshan S]

On Thursday 21 May 2009 02:10:09 Ravi Jaya wrote:
> Luggies,
>
>
> I am trying to build Python extension using C in  windows and Linux, can
> someone please provide me an a pointer for the same.
>
> http://docs.python.org/3.0/extending/extending.html
>
> I am tried to in windows, it shows some error message which i had pasted 
> it here http://pastebin.com/m370edfc

From the error messages, it looks like you don't have the headers installed. 
Try installing the development packages for libc6.

As with the python extensions, use Cython[1] or Pyrex[2] to write extensions 
since using the CPython API involves a lot of boring boiler-plate code (also 
gets complicated in a while). If the extension is binding a simple library, 
you can use ctypes[3] module provided by the python standard library. 
I personally found Cython to be pretty easy to use.

[1]: http://www.cython.org/
[2]: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/
[3]: http://python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/
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