Complex Type Library and C++/COM/WinAPI Bridge

Contains many file definitions, WinAPI, COM, base NET/CoreCLR interaction, WinRT, inter-process and many-many more cool features. See the library source code for reference. Library is written in pure Python.

Main library terms

1. IML - Instructions Markup Language, custom DSL standard for this library. Uses space-delimiter-based tokenization and instruction-centric model. See iml/imldef.py for IML parser implementation.
2. ICL - Interface Contract Language, custom DSL for the definition of the COM interfaces and speedup the COM/Python declaring. See com/icl/wicl/parser.py for parser implementation.
3. WICL - (Windows) Interface Contract Language, Generator/Parser implementation for the ICL standard. See com/icl/wicl/parser.py for its implementation.
4. Intermediate Methods Process - the architecture of intermediate layer of Python delegator function and C++ declaration, Python must be call delegate method. See defbase.py for reference (foreign_optimized, foreign, delegate, CStructure.delegate, CStructure.virt_delegate).
5. CIMPL - C Implementation Language, custom DSL for the definition of the JIT-compilable code, which lays between assembly and high-level definitions. Now is in development and not stable-to-work. See cimpl/cimpldef.py and cimpl/cimpljit.py (under construction) for reference.
6. WET - Windows Event Tracing, custom tracing and logging system. See wet/trace.py for reference.
7. WD - Win Debugger, custom debugger for debugging Python code with native calls, supports calling INT3 for entering native debugger (e.g. WinDbg).
8. COM TL - COM Template Library, the answer to Microsoft ATL, core module for COM utilities, COM object definitions and COM Servers API
9. NTL - .NET Template Library, library for hosting CLR, .NET Framework interop startup, utilities for interop.
10. JTL - Java Template Library, library for interacting JNI and interop startup.
11. WRPC - Win Remote Procedure Call, custom protocol for distributed objects system and remote procedure calling.
12. WinAbs - Win Abstractions Layer, abstractions over Win32 primitives for securely interacting with WinAPI and fastely developing on WinAPI on Python, destroying the Win32 API boilerplate code.

Main files

1. defbase.py: core infrastructure and types definitions. first-to-see file.
2. cpreproc.py: core definition of the runtime preprocessor simulation.
3. com/comdefbase.py: core definition of the COM APIs.
4. com/interfacedef.py: core definition of the COM interface bases.
5. defbase_process.py: definitions for the CProcess class and inter-process communication.
6. defbase_thread.py: definitions for the CThread class and thread manipulations.
7. defbase_module.py: definitions for the CModule class and module manipulations.
8. defbase_allocator.py: core definitions of library Allocator APIs and IAllocator interface.
9. defbase_assembly.py: definition for the CAssembly class and machine code parsing.
10. cimpl/cimpldef.py: definitions for the core CIMPL infrastructure.
11. iml/imldef.py: definitions for the IML parser and its context.
12. com/icl/wicl/parser.py: definitions for the WICL - ICL Parser and its context.
13. defbase_errordef.py: definitions for the Windows error exceptions and exception text formatting.
14. com/guid.py: definitions for the GUID, IID and CLSID.
15. com/comtl: COM Templates Library, the ATL analogue in library.
16. com/bstr.py: definition of the BSTR class.
17. com/unknwn.py: definition of the IUnknown, IClassFactory and COMClass classes and other core COM infrastructure logic.
18. abs/core/handle.py: core definitions for RAII-like handles for WinAbs
19. abs/core/event.py: core definition of WinAbs C#-like Event
20. abs/window.py: core window logic of WinAbs framework
21. wrpc/message.py: specification of WRPC protocol
22. wrpc/marshal.py: core marshal logic of WRPC
23. wrpc/protocol.py: main implementation of WRPC protocol
24. net/interop.py: .NET Framework Interop full implementation
25. net/ntl.py and net/ntlext.py: NTL and its extension
26. net/ntlgen.py: Python code generator from .NET assembly (part of NTL)
27. java/interop.py: Java Interop full implementation
28. java/jtl.py: Java Template Library
29. winrt/winrtns.py: definitions of WinRT namespaces, core import
30. wet/trace.py: implementation of WET - Windows Event Tracing
31. dbg/wd.py: implementation of WD - Win Debugger
32. com/dispatch.py: definition for OLE Automation wrapper
33. com/icl/iclstorage: main storage place for ICL files