Hello,

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I'm new to boost and did sucessfully complete the installation of boost and

the boost.python hello world example. However, I'm wondering how to wrap a shared library I get as a binary and a header file to access it. Can anyone point me to any documentation about this?

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little example:

I own a library "mylib.dll" and a header file "mylib.h" without any source

code for my platform. Now I'd like to build a python wrapper to access this mylib.dll. I already wrote a "mywrapper.cpp" that includes the mylib.h file. But however bjam tries to build a mylib.pyd instead of using just the dll.

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can anyone help me with this?

thank you

Michael _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users

I'm not sure if this will help but I had a similar problem.

in the jamfile I had to add a reference to my external library

here is what it looks like...

extension journal_ext # Declare a Python extension called journal_ext : src/journal_ext.cpp

# requirements and dependencies for Boost.Python extensions <template>@boost/libs/python/build/extension : <library-file>/a_path/libboost_log-gcc-1_33_1.so ############################## THIS LINE HERE ;

Thank you for your advice, that helped much...I got it running now. Kind regards, Michael