Wrapping a library where no source is available (only header)

[Eero af Heurlin]

I have a proprietary library http://www.sightcorp.com/docs/crowdsight/latest/class_crowd_sight.html (binaries from http://sightcorp.com/packages/) which builds on OpenCV, which I'd very much like to access from Python for many, many reasons.

Anyway I have trouble figuring out how to tell it about OpenCV types, also:

/usr/include/crowdsight.h:226:18: fatal error: vector: No such file or directory

 #include <vector>

 

I kinda hoped this would have been simpler than with SIP (where I also ran into a wall trying to figure out how to tell it about OpenCV types).

My stuff: https://github.com/rambo/python-libcrowdsight/tree/xdress

Anyway, is xdress+Cython doomed to fail anyway since the original sources are not available ?? only the .so file and the public api in the header are.

[Eero af Heurlin]

Also, I'm pretty much total n00b when it comes to Cython or python bindings interface in general.