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| Subject: | Re: a simple question about pyepics |
| From: | Ricardo Cardenes via Tech-talk <[email protected]> |
| To: | [email protected] |
| Cc: | Talk EPICS Tech <[email protected]> |
| Date: | Tue, 21 Aug 2018 06:10:15 -1000 |
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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