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I want to write a wrap for a DLL file, in this case for python. The problem is that the argument types are not the C standard ones. They have been typedef’end to something else.
I have the header files for the DLL files… so I can manually track the original standard C type the argument type was typedef’ined to. But wanted a more systematic way to do this. I was wondering whether there is a utility that would evaluate the header files, or if you can get somewhere in the dll the types definition.
I think the tool you are looking for is SWIG:
This does assume that you are willing to use the headers for the DLL. If you want to work solely with the DLL, then you have more work to do. It might provide a reflection interface that you can use to analyze the types. Failing that, you are into a world of pain – or reverse engineering any debugging information in the DLL.