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Author theller
Recipients christian.heimes, theller
Date 2008-01-11.18:27:00
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Message-id <1200076022.58.0.0251146901133.issue1793@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The cross-platform function is ctypes.util.find_library, which is
currently not very useful on Windows.

This patch changes it so that, on Windows, find_library("c") or
find_library("m") finds the MS C runtime lib which exposes functions the
are typically in libc and libm.

The runtime lib in Windows is special anyway; the 'open' function, for
example, is exported as '_open'.

However, the easiest way on Linux (don't know about other platforms) to
load the C runtime lib is to use ctypes.CDLL(None), which translates to
dlopen(NULL) in C.  Linux exposes all symbols from all loaded libraries
to the returned handle.
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Date User Action Args
2008-01-11 18:27:02thellersetspambayes_score: 0.012135 -> 0.012135027
recipients: + theller, christian.heimes
2008-01-11 18:27:02thellersetspambayes_score: 0.012135 -> 0.012135
messageid: <1200076022.58.0.0251146901133.issue1793@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-01-11 18:27:01thellerlinkissue1793 messages
2008-01-11 18:27:00thellercreate