ctypes.sh vs cppimport

ctypes.sh

A foreign function interface for bash. (by taviso)

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Import C++ files directly from Python! (by tbenthompson)

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ctypes.sh		cppimport
	Project
8	Mentions	-
2,018	Stars	1,145
-	Growth	-
5.2	Activity	0.0
6 months ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
C	Language	Python
MIT License	License	MIT License

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ctypes.sh

Posts with mentions or reviews of ctypes.sh. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-02.

ctypes.sh: A foreign function interface for bash (2023)
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2024
Ctypes.sh: A foreign function interface for bash
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2024
Writing a Minecraft server from scratch in Bash (2022)
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2024
A foreign function interface for bash
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Aug 2023
Goto in Bash
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Aug 2023

It's a funny trick, but you could probably also use setjmp and longjmp with ctypes.sh :-)
https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh
Ctypes.h: A foreign function interface for bash
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2023
Shared Libraries as Executables
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Aug 2022

rundll32.exe is just a way of doing FFI from as a command -- there are few different options on UNIX-likr systems for that. The most obvious is ctypes.sh [0].
There are, though, even more sophisticated options than just FFI, like the Witchcraft Compiler Collection [1], which includes among other things an interactive shell.
[0] https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh
[1] https://github.com/endrazine/wcc

cppimport

Posts with mentions or reviews of cppimport. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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libffi - A portable foreign-function interface library.

JavaCPP - The missing bridge between Java and native C++

pluginbase - A simple but flexible plugin system for Python.