From d0ef4c71030d16012f1b6766bd92f950be2ebc33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Manuel Guenther <manuel.guenther@idiap.ch>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 20:05:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added function to load the C++ Library in a given bob module.
---
bob/extension/__init__.py | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
diff --git a/bob/extension/__init__.py b/bob/extension/__init__.py
index 55e1cfc..5b1bac6 100644
--- a/bob/extension/__init__.py
+++ b/bob/extension/__init__.py
@@ -191,7 +191,36 @@ def get_bob_libraries(bob_packages):
return includes, libraries, library_directories
+def load_bob_library(name, _file_, version=None):
+ """Loads the bob Library for the given package name in the given version (if given).
+ The _file_ parameter is expected to be the ``__file__`` member of the main ``__init__.py`` of the package.
+ It is used to determine the directory, where the library should be loaded from.
+ Keyword parameters
+
+ name : string
+ The name of the bob package to load the library from, e.g. ``bob.core``
+
+ _file_ : string
+ The ``__file__`` member of the ``__init__.py`` file in which the library is loaded.
+
+ version : string
+ The version of the library to load. Can be usually omitted.
+ """
+
+ libname = 'lib' + name.replace('.', '_')
+ if sys.platform == 'darwin':
+ libname += ('.' + version if version is not None else '') + '.dylib'
+ elif sys.platform == 'win32':
+ libname += '.dll' + ('.' + version if version is not None else '')
+ else: # linux like
+ libname += '.so' + ('.' + version if version is not None else '')
+
+ full_libname = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(_file_), libname)
+
+ import ctypes
+ print "loading library", full_libname
+ ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary(full_libname)
class Extension(DistutilsExtension):
--
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