Python: accessing DLL function using ctypes — access by function *name* fails

Question

myPythonClient (below) wants to invoke a ringBell function (loaded from a DLL using ctypes). However, attempting to access ring

Answer 1

All is working now :) To summarize your posts:

Write DLL in C++:

// Header
extern "C"
{   // Name in DLL will be "MyAdd" - but you won't be able to find parameters etc...
    __declspec(dllexport) int MyAdd(int a, int b);
}  
// Name will be with lot of prefixes but some other info is provided - IMHO better approach
__declspec(dllexport) int MyAdd2(int a, int b);

//.cpp Code
__declspec(dllexport) int MyAdd(int a, int b)
{   return a+b;
}
__declspec(dllexport) int MyAdd2(int a, int b)
{   return a+b;
} 

Then you can use program link.exe to see real function name in dll. link.exe is for example in MSVC2010 here:

c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 10.0\VC\bin\link.exe

use:

link /dump /exports yourFileName.dll

you see Something like:

ordinal hint RVA      name
      1    0 00001040 ?MyAdd2@@YAHHH@Z = ?MyAdd2@@YAHHH@Z (int __cdecl MyAdd2(int,int))
      2    1 00001030 MyAdd = _MyAdd

Then in python you can import it as:

import ctypes

mc = ctypes.CDLL('C:\\testDll3.dll')

#mc.MyAdd2(1,2) # this Won't Work - name is different in dll
myAdd2 = getattr(mc,"?MyAdd2@@YAHHH@Z") #to find name use: link.exe /dump /exports fileName.dll 
print myAdd2(1,2)
#p1 = ctypes.c_int (1) #use rather c types
print mc[1](2,3) # use indexing - can be provided using link.exe

print mc.MyAdd(4,5)
print mc[2](6,7) # use indexing - can be provided using link.exe