Sorry, it does not work.
The definitions of the exported functions are still missing.
There are the "defines" and the defined types, but no functions.

D:\Projects\1.i60\ctype> xml2py.py win32atapi.xml -lD:\Projects\1.i60\ctype\win32atapi.dll -k
fdt
# generated by 'xml2py'
# flags 'win32atapi.xml -lD:\Projects\1.i60\ctype\win32atapi.dll -kfdt'
from ctypes import *
ERR_INVALID_PARAMETER = 50332416 # Variable c_ulong
ERR_UNKNOWN_MODE = 50332160 # Variable c_ulong
ERR_UNKNOWN_MODULE = 50331904 # Variable c_ulong
ERR_DLL_REENTRANT_TIMEOUT = 50331654 # Variable c_ulong
ERR_DLL_NOT_INITIALISED = 50331650 # Variable c_ulong
ERR_DLL_INIT_FAILED = 50331649 # Variable c_ulong
ERR_DLL_REENTRANT_OCCURRED = 50331653 # Variable c_ulong
ERR_INVALID_ATAPI_TIMEOUT = 50331655 # Variable c_ulong
BYTE = c_char
ERR_ATAPI_ALREADY_INITIALIZED = 50331651 # Variable c_ulong
DWORD = c_ulong
DLL_ERRLEVEL = 3 # Variable c_int
ERR_INVALID_BUFFER_PTR = 50331656 # Variable c_ulong
ERR_ATAPI_CMD_FAILED = 50331652 # Variable c_ulong

D:\Projects\1.i60\ctype>  

The DLL is used, because if I enter an invalid DLL name, xml2py raises an error:

  File "D:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\ctypes\__init__.py", line 319, in __init__
    self._handle = _LoadLibrary(self._name)
WindowsError: [Errno 126] The specified module could not be found

I used the option -v and there´s an interesting info in it:

###########################
# Symbols defined:
#
# Variables:             12
# Struct/Unions:          0
# Functions:              0
# Enums:                  0
# Enum values:            0
# Typedefs:               2
# Pointertypes:           0
# Arraytypes:             0
# unknown functions:      9
#
# Total symbols:     2
###########################


What means "unknown functions" ?

Thanks 
Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Heller [mailto:theller@[...].net] 
Sent: Tuesday, 12. July 2005 11:28
To: Kuner Martin
Cc: Thomas Heller; ctypes-users@[...].net
Subject: Re: [ctypes-users] Problems with ctypes code generation (h2xml & xml2py)

"Kuner Martin" <martin.kuner@[...].net>  writes:

>  All files related to the code generattion are in one directory, and 
>  from that dir I started the tools h2xml and xml2py.  There´s another 
>  strange behaviour: I have to copy the header file to be analyzed into 
>  the systems "temp" directory otherwise I´ll get an error message 
>  during the h2xml process (see below).
> 
>  D:\Projects\1.i60\ctype>h2xml.py win32atapi.h -o win32atapi.xml -c 
>  finding definitions ...
>  running: gccxml --preprocess -dM d:\temp\tmprm4rns.cpp
>  running: gccxml --preprocess -dM d:\temp\tmpsld_qv.cpp
>  d:/temp/tmpsld_qv.cpp:1:24: win32atapi.h: No such file or directory 0 
>  found filtering definitions ...
>  0 values, 0 aliases
>  finding definitions types ...
>  running: gccxml d:\temp\tmpayd53r.cpp -fxml=d:\temp\tmprv315z.xml 
>  Compiler errors on these source lines:
>  '#include "win32atapi.h"'  win32atapi.h: No such file or directory
>  CompilerError: gccxml returned 1
>  D:\Projects\1.i60\ctype>
> 
>  So all files are in one dir, and I call the xml2py.py script from that directory.
>  Do I need the actions you proposed additionaly ?

The current directory is in the search path, afaik, so I think you don't need to take these 
actions.

For this error:
>  '#include "win32atapi.h"'  win32atapi.h: No such file or directory

gccxml by default searches include files in the C compiler's include directory.  To find inc
lude files in the current directory, you must add '-I .' to the command line:

h2xml.py -I. win32atapi.h -o win32atapi.xml -c

plus the -l option for the dll.

Thomas



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