libtools

Experimenting with - and capturing via runnable example - different ways to interact with native code on Linux.

Installation & Usage

From the top-level directory you can run

./buildme -t TYPE

Where TYPE is one of:

• EXE (-cutable)
• STATIC (These are built-in - i.e. fixed at compile-time.)
• SHARED (Loadable at run-time and accessible to all.)
• DYNAMIC (Loadable aytime.)
• PYTHON (extension)
• LLVM (Python llvmlite-generated ELF object called from C application.)
• CFFI (Python C extension module built with Foreign Function Interface.)
• CFFI-CALLBACK (C code calling pure Python.)
• NUMBA (Calling JIT compiled code embedded in AOT compiled lib.)
• NUMBA-CALLBACK (C code calling pure Python and JIT code.)

For example

./buildme -t STATIC

should output something like:

Building static library!
Building application & linking in library!
Running the application: 10 + 5 = 15
Cleaning up!!!