How to make Python ctypes on Android?

[Jordan Jambazov]

I'm currently struggling to make the python ctypes module work on Android device. What I did was to remove the ctypes module from the python recipe patch disable_modules_list. When I start the application on the device it crashes and in the log I see the following error:

[WARNING           ] stderr: ImportError: No module named ctypes


Could you please just give me some directions about how to make the ctypes module work on mobile devices?

[Gabriel Pettier]

Not expert in these things, and not saying you shouldn't use ctypes, but
kivy comes with cython, maybe you can use that instead of ctypes?

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[Jordan Jambazov]

I want to use the structures and unions features of the ctypes module. But that's not the big deal. Also I want it in order to load dynamic link C/C++ libraries, containing functionality that I wouldn't like write in Cython. It would be great to have the ctype module running on Android and iOS devices!

2013/4/5 Gabriel Pettier <gabriel...@gmail.com>

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[Mathieu Virbel]

Hi,

Somebody send while ago a patch to make ctypes working, but i don't
remember which mailing list (-dev / -users, or python-android).

Nobody tried on iOS (mostly because you can't dlopen(), but i think that
should'nt be a big issues if you introspect with dlsym in the current
context.)

Mathieu

Le 05/04/2013 22:43, Jordan Jambazov a �crit :

> I want to use the structures and unions features of the ctypes module.
> But that's not the big deal. Also I want it in order to load dynamic
> link C/C++ libraries, containing functionality that I wouldn't like
> write in Cython. It would be great to have the ctype module running on
> Android and iOS devices!
>
>
> 2013/4/5 Gabriel Pettier <gabriel...@gmail.com

> <mailto:gabriel...@gmail.com>>

>
> Not expert in these things, and not saying you shouldn't use ctypes, but
> kivy comes with cython, maybe you can use that instead of ctypes?
>
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 05:56:04AM -0700, Jordan Jambazov wrote:
> > I'm currently struggling to make the python ctypes module work on
> Android
> > device. What I did was to remove the ctypes module from the python
> recipe
> > patch disable_modules_list. When I start the application on the
> device it
> > crashes and in the log I see the following error:
> >
> > [WARNING ] stderr: ImportError: No module named ctypes
> >
> >
> > Could you please just give me some directions about how to make
> the ctypes
> > module work on mobile devices?
> >
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[qua-non]

Just for future reference I found this https://bitbucket.org/Nodrev/kivy-python-for-android-with-ctypes.

We should look at merging the changes back into kivy/py4a