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Subject: Re: ctypes problem loading libc.so on FreeBSD current
From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:42 PM, Marcus von Appen <mva@freebsd.org> wrote:

>
> You described the problem above. ctypes is unable to load linker
> scripts. The general advise is to use find_library():
>
> >>> import ctypes
> >>> import ctypes.util
> >>> clib = ctypes.util.find_library("c")
> >>> print clib
> libc.so.7
> >>> dll = ctypes.CDLL(clib)
>
> Cheers
> Marcus
>


That solves it.
Thanks!!

--
Craig