From 9897ecf173867f8a62000437b8bdbd81cab72996 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcelo Duarte <marcelotduarte@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 00:23:28 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] ctypes sample to show issue #523

---
 cx_Freeze/samples/ctypes/setup.py       | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 cx_Freeze/samples/ctypes/test_ctypes.py |  3 +++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 cx_Freeze/samples/ctypes/setup.py
 create mode 100644 cx_Freeze/samples/ctypes/test_ctypes.py

diff --git a/cx_Freeze/samples/ctypes/setup.py b/cx_Freeze/samples/ctypes/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4248aa44c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cx_Freeze/samples/ctypes/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+'''A setup script to demonstrate build using ctypes'''
+#
+# Run the build process by running the command 'python setup.py build'
+#
+# If everything works well you should find a subdirectory in the build
+# subdirectory that contains the files needed to run the script without Python
+
+from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
+
+setup(name='test_ctypes',
+      version='0.1',
+      description='cx_Freeze script to test ctypes',
+      executables=[Executable("test_ctypes.py")],
+      options={
+          'build_exe': {'zip_include_packages': ['*'],
+                        'zip_exclude_packages': []}
+          })
diff --git a/cx_Freeze/samples/ctypes/test_ctypes.py b/cx_Freeze/samples/ctypes/test_ctypes.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7243809c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cx_Freeze/samples/ctypes/test_ctypes.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+import ctypes
+
+print('Hello', ctypes.__name__)