Added pythonCAPI.h - for Windoze python support.

Author: highperformancecoder

pythonBuffer.h

@@ -1,20 +1,9 @@
 /*
-  @copyright Steve Keen 2023
+  @copyright Russell Standish 2024
   @author Russell Standish
-  This file is part of Minsky.
+  This file is part of Classdesc
 
-  Minsky is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
-  under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-  (at your option) any later version.
-
-  Minsky is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-  GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-  along with Minsky.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+  Open source licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.
 */
 
 /* A buffer implementation for marshalling function arguments from python onjects
@@ -28,7 +17,12 @@
 #include "signature.h"
 #include <deque>
 #include <numeric>
-#include <Python.h>
+//#ifdef MXE
+//#include <MXEPython.h>
+//#else
+//#include <Python.h>
+//#endif
+#include "pythonCAPI.h"
 
 #define CLASSDESC_PY_EXCEPTION_ABSORB(ret)                              \
   catch (const std::exception& ex)                                      \

pythonCAPI.h

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/*
+  @copyright Russell Standish 2025
+  @author Russell Standish
+  This file is part of Classdesc
+
+  Open source licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.
+*/
+
+// Declares functions usded from the Python C API
+#ifndef CLASSDESC_PYTHON_CAPI_H
+#define CLASSDESC_PYTHON_CAPI_H
+
+// TODO - is this field used on Windows?
+#define _PyObject_HEAD_EXTRA
+#define Py_RETURN_TRUE return Py_INCREF(Py_True), Py_True
+#define Py_RETURN_FALSE return Py_INCREF(Py_False), Py_False
+
+extern "C" {
+  typedef ssize_t Py_ssize_t;
+  typedef struct _object {
+    _PyObject_HEAD_EXTRA
+    Py_ssize_t ob_refcnt;
+    struct _typeobject *ob_type;
+  } PyObject;
+
+  PyObject* PyUnicode_FromString(const char *);
+  PyObject* PyDict_New();
+  
+}
+#endif