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Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Tue, 21 Aug 2018 10:52:26 -0500

Hi Ricardo,

On 08/21/2018 10:02 AM, Ricardo Cardenes via Tech-talk wrote:
> Note epics.ca.find_libca() is just trying to find a regular dynamic
> library, not one defining a Python module.

Actually pyepics was designed to use the regular libca.so library, it
doesn't have its own python-specific one so it doesn't need a C compiler
to build and use. This is unusual, but it's one of the nice things about
our having a C API for CA, pyepics can use the ctypes ffi to call it
directly.

This kind of thing is not generally possible with C++ APIs though.

- Andrew

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