Tracking: Support CPython extension modules (*.pyd)

[ironpythonbot]

This isn't something we're likely to implement soon - there's lots of
challenges in getting this to work. Unfortunately you'll probably not be able
to get it working from C# either, but this might be a great use for C++/CLI
instead. I believe we do have a bug filed against it, we just won't get to it
anytime soon J.

There's two big problems here:

            #1) Re-creating the unmanaged CPython interfaces - this will be no small chore
            #2) Dealing w/ direct access to the raw object layout.  For example I don't believe bumping the ref count goes through an API, instead it just uses a macro which adjusts the raw memory.

#1 is by and large just a matter of someone cranking through and creating

the thunks that map into the IronPython runtime (I'd include the calls into
the PYD's init and other functions as well here). But #2 is a large can of
worms. What probably needs to happen is VirtualAlloc'ing a block of memory as
read-only, setting up an exception handler, and fixing the memory up at
runtime as it's accessed - then when changes happen directly to memory the C#
objects can be updated.

All in all it's a huge project... In the mean time you might be able to find a
.NET library that does the same thing as the PYD and either wrap that in some
Python code if programming against the same API is a must or just program
directly against it if that's not one of your requirements.

Glad you're having a good time with it!

From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at
lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Josh Cassell
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:14 AM
To: users at lists.ironpython.com
Subject: [IronPython] pyd files

Is there ever going to be a way to import from a .pyd file in IronPython? If
not, is it possible to interop to a .pyd file in C# in order to wrap it for
use from IronPython?

Btw, I'm new to Python, and it has been very enjoyable and exciting using
IronPython. Thanks very much!

Josh

Work Item Details

Original CodePlex Issue: Issue 11333
Status: Active
Reason Closed: Unassigned
Assigned to: Unassigned
Reported on: Jun 25, 2007 at 6:55 PM
Reported by: dfugate
Updated on: Aug 26, 2013 at 11:56 PM
Updated by: Lythie

[ironpythonbot]

On 2007-06-26 05:51:26 UTC, sborde commented:

We can look into hosting the CPython engine to build an interop bridge without having to deal with the CPython interfaces directly.

[ironpythonbot]

On 2007-11-02 21:03:38 UTC, fuzzyman commented:

This feature will be added to IronPython by Resolver Systems as an open source project. Some progress has already been made.

Relevant links:

http://www.resolversystems.com/news/?p=17 (project announcement)

http://groups.google.com/group/c-extensions-for-ironpython (mailing list)

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ironpython/cpython_extensions.shtml (working proof of concept)

[ironpythonbot]

On 2008-12-02 12:00:04 UTC, TraumaPony commented:

I wish I could vote up more than once for this.

[ironpythonbot]

On 2008-12-02 19:29:56 UTC, Eloff commented:

You can, Ironclad is open source,
http://code.google.com/p/ironclad/, feel free to contribute.

[ironpythonbot]

On 2008-12-05 19:56:07 UTC, fuzzyman commented:

Shouldn't this issue be closed? There's no way it will be implemented separately from Ironclad right?

[ironpythonbot]

On 2013-05-29 04:30:22 UTC, bc3tech commented:

Looks like Ironclad might have worked in the past, but its DLLs are statically referencing IronPython 2.6 and won't work with IP 2.7 :(
Would be great if IP would pull in Ironclad since it looks like it is mostly there as of 2.6 - might just need to recompile against 2.7 IP DLLs

[sopelt]

FYI: It seem like https://github.com/IronLanguages/ironclad attempts to revive ironclad and support it in IPy 2.7.

[macumber]

Would love to see this implemented.!

[slide]

I don't think this will get life in the 2.7 releases, but we could look at it for IronPython 3