[Pyrex] warning C4047: '=' : 'PyObject *' differs in levels of indirection from 'FOO_STATUS'

[Steve W. Hanawalt]

Hello,

I'm trying to create a python wrapper for a DLL, but I keep getting this
warning:

warning C4047: '=' : 'PyObject *' differs in levels of indirection from
'FOO_STATUS'

and I think it may be why the wrapper isn't working.  When I execute the
code in Python I get:

SystemError: error return without exception set

Here as example snippet of the code:
foo.h:
	#ifdef FOODLL_EXPORTS
	#define FOODLL_API __declspec(dllexport)
	#else
	#define FOODLL_API __declspec(dllimport)
	#endif	

	typedef		int		FOO_STATUS;

      FOODLL_API
	FOO_STATUS WINAPI FOO_GetNumDevices(
		LPDWORD	lpdwNumDevices
		);

---end of example foo.h---

foo.pyx:
	cdef extern from "stdafx.h":
	    ctypedef unsigned long   DWORD
	    ctypedef unsigned short  BOOL
	    ctypedef unsigned short  BYTE
	    ctypedef unsigned short  WORD
	    ctypedef float           FLOAT
	    ctypedef FLOAT           *PFLOAT
	    ctypedef BOOL            *PBOOL
	    ctypedef BOOL            *LPBOOL
	    ctypedef BYTE            *PBYTE
	    ctypedef BYTE            *LPBYTE
	    ctypedef int             *PINT
	    ctypedef int             *LPINT
	    ctypedef WORD            *PWORD
	    ctypedef WORD            *LPWORD
	    ctypedef long            *LPLONG
	    ctypedef DWORD           *PDWORD
	    ctypedef DWORD           *LPDWORD
	    ctypedef void            *LPVOID
	    ctypedef int                 INT
	    ctypedef unsigned int        UINT
	    ctypedef unsigned int        *PUINT

	cdef extern from "FOO.h":
	    ctypedef  int     FOO_STATUS	

	    FOO_STATUS
	    FOO_GetNumDevices(
	        LPDWORD lpdwNumDevices
	        )

	def getNumDevices():
	    """
	    This function returns the number of FOO devices connected to
the host.
	    """
	    cdef FOO_STATUS status
	    cdef DWORD numDevs

	    status = FOO_GetNumDevices(&numDevs)

	    return numDevs

---end of example foo.pyx---

When I look at the C code generated by Pyrex, it's definitely trying to
assign an int to a pointer.  Am I doing something wrong in the pyx file?

As a side question, is there an easier way to get the windows typedefs
without stating them explicitly?

Thanks in advance,
Steve


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