> Wine is a good suggestion, but it takes up 3.53 MB. Is there a lighter >> alternative? >> > > So far, you didn't state whether the DLL actually uses Windows calls, but I > would imagine it does, and if so, you can't use it on anything but Windows > without emulating those calls, thus using Wine. > > Sorry for not being more specific, the DLL actually uses Windows calls.
> If it's available in source form (C? C++? What else?), you can extract the > part that's interesting to you and wrap that using Cython or ctypes (with > Cython being substantially faster than SWIG or ctypes). > > The Source is C. I've heard of Cython, would Cython be a more portable alternative? > However, you didn't give us any hints about what the DLL actually does, so > we can't know if you really need to go that path or if you just failed to > find the obvious portable alternative. > > > The DLL wraps a device driver, and the library of the SWIG wrapped device driver calls is invoked from a Python app. I was trying to find how this device driver (DLL) could be used on Linux without having to re-write the whole driver code for Linux. Thanks, Iyer
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