title: Calling DLLs using python's ctypes in OS X
body: <p>I am working with an instrument that provided the shared libraries to use with C/C++. As my group is working with Python I wrote a ctypes wrapper using the provided DLLs (loading them with windll) and everything was working right because we were testing the code using Windows.</p>
  
  <p>The final machine in which I will need to run the code is OS X, and I think I've hit a wall since the libraries the manufacturer provided don't include .so files, only .dll's.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way I can write a wrapper for using this instrument (and its provided DLL files) on Mac OS X without having access to the source code? Or would my best option be finish the program in Windows, create an executable and then running it with Wine?</p>