Introduction

The only project like ctypesgen is ctypes http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes (which ctypesgen uses). Other projects require a C compiler to build executable/modules.

Helpers for Building Python Extensions

• swig http://www.swig.org/
• http://code.google.com/p/pybindgen/
• boost_python http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/libs/python/doc/index.html (C++ focus)
• sip http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/sip/ (C++ focus)
• Cython/Pyrex http://www.cython.org/ http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/
• http://code.google.com/p/shedskin/
• Shiboken http://qt.gitorious.org/pyside/shiboken new Nokia/glib based system used in PySide
• PyPy http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/
• xml2py - see Automatic C Library Wrapping -- Ctypes from the Trenches at the Python Papers