Reminder of how to use SWIG to wrap C functions for use in Python

0README.python-swig

Do this:

make
gdb -x hook.x `which python`

More info: http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/Python.html

hook.c

void wware_hook(void)
{
    return;
}

hook.i

%module hook
%{
void wware_hook(void);
%}
void wware_hook(void);

hook.x

set breakpoint pending on
break wware_hook
run hook2.py

hook2.py

import hook

hook.wware_hook()

Makefile

all: _hook.so

wrapper.c: hook.i
	swig -python -o wrapper.c hook.i

wrapper.o: wrapper.c
	gcc -I/usr/include/python2.7 -fPIC -c wrapper.c

hook.o: hook.c
	gcc -fPIC -c hook.c

_hook.so: hook.o wrapper.o
	gcc -shared wrapper.o hook.o -lpython2.7 -o _hook.so

clean:
	rm -f wrapper.c wrapper.o hook.o hook.so _hook.so hook.py hook.pyc