Merge pull request #373 from jdemeyer/extern_impl_test

Add test and documentation for external implementation of functions

docs/src/userguide/external_C_code.rst

@@ -124,6 +124,35 @@ A few more tricks and tips:
     cdef extern from *:
         ...
 
+Implementing functions in C
+---------------------------
+
+When you want to call C code from a Cython module, usually that code
+will be in some external library that you link your extension against.
+However, you can also directly compile C (or C++) code as part of your
+Cython module. In the ``.pyx`` file, you can put something like::
+
+    cdef extern from "spam.c":
+        void order_spam(int tons)
+
+Cython will assume that the function ``order_spam()`` is defined in the
+file ``spam.c``. If you also want to cimport this function from another
+module, it must be declared (not extern!) in the ``.pxd`` file::
+
+    cdef void order_spam(int tons)
+
+For this to work, the signature of ``order_spam()`` in ``spam.c`` must
+match the signature that Cython uses, in particular the function must
+be static:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+    static void order_spam(int tons)
+    {
+        printf("Ordered %i tons of spam!\n", tons);
+    }
+
+
 .. _struct-union-enum-styles:
 
 Styles of struct, union and enum declaration

tests/run/extern_impl.srctree

+PYTHON setup.py build_ext --inplace
+PYTHON -c "import foo"
+PYTHON -c "import a"
+
+######## setup.py ########
+
+from Cython.Build import cythonize
+from distutils.core import setup
+
+setup(
+  ext_modules = cythonize("*.pyx"),
+)
+
+######## foo.pxd ########
+
+cdef void bar()
+
+######## foo.pyx ########
+
+cdef extern from "bar_impl.c":
+    void bar()
+
+######## bar_impl.c ########
+
+static void bar() {}
+
+######## a.pyx ########
+
+from foo cimport bar